Linux Desktop

[ThePenguinCometh]

Wow, Linux is getting a lot of attention here today! Good thing too. I used to have a pretty tightly secured Slackware box directly connected to the 'net. My security logs always made for interesting reading. Now I've got seven machines sitting behind a Devil Linux firewall. The security logs? Empty!

 

[Willz]

If I decide to try out an other OS I just get another computer. Much easier.

Lol, you may be able to afford a new computer just like that, but i cant :p, am stuck with these 2 computers for a long long time, just hope they dont start giving me even more :swear: that they do now when i am at college.

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how exatly do i set up a hardware firewall on devil linux, the computer i use for a hardware firewall wills till be used for windows, its only got a 20gb hard drive, so could someone tell me how to set a hardware firewall on devil linux up??

 

[ThePenguinCometh]

Lol, you may be able to afford a new computer just like that

Actually most of my computers were throw-aways that I salvaged from the dump and got running again. Every weekend I go to the local amenity tip and pick up 2-3 computers plus LOTS of spare parts for about £30. I have 3 machines that I actually bought new (well, built mostly from new parts) and probably about fifteen more potentially that were throw-aways once I get all the parts tested and working. You can get a pretty decent machine by rescuing an old PC from the skip and putting Linux on there. Then, with one computer set up as a data server so that you can keep all your files on one PC and use the same ones across a network, you've basically got your own computer lab/farm/bank.

how exatly do i set up a hardware firewall on devil linux

1. Download the ISO.
2. Burn the ISO onto a CD.
3. Get a PC with two network cards and NO hard-drive.
4. Boot the PC from the CD.
5, Run setup.

Eh viola!

the computer i use for a hardware firewall wills till be used for windows, its only got a 20gb hard drive

That's a contradiction in terms. If your setting up a Devil Linux firewall then you're talking about a PC that on 24-7. No reason to have a dual boot and no reason to have a hard-drive. My firewall doesn't even have a keyboard and monitor attached. You *could* of course install Devil Linux onto a hard-drive and have a dual-boot system but it was initially designed as a firewall and is used best either as that or as a server so a dual-boot system still doesn't make sense.

My advice to you, if you still want to use your old computer for Windows, is to get yourself an old machine (mine's a 300MHz K6-II with 128MB RAM) from the skip or from someone who has one they don't use or wherever and use that one as your firewall.

 

[Anti-Trend]

My advice to you, if you still want to use your old computer for Windows, is to get yourself an old machine (mine's a 300MHz K6-II with 128MB RAM) from the skip or from someone who has one they don't use or wherever and use that one as your firewall.

Ditto. I've got just about identical hardware to ThePenguinCometh, except mine's running IPCop. One fundamental rule of networking and security: Never make your gateway an endpoint. In other words, your firewalls and workstations should be completely different things.

 

[Willz]

ok...., i only have one network card in each computer, so... i cant have a hardware firewall, the only one i can have 2 network cards in is my main computer, and stuff turning my main computer into a hardware firewall. :\


at the moment my main computer is like a file server to my old one, as if the old computer wants anything installing or i want music i get it from downloads file in downloads/music hardrive partition, but i will consider turning my old computer into just a file server were everyhitng is installed if the electric bills dont turn out to be extreamly high as this past 3 months i have being using computer more than ever so if they happen to be ok, i can have my fileserver, and mum wont crack up and go mental, and everyone/exeryhting is happy :).