I love Coyote Linux http://www.coyotelinux.com I don't know if it's
as robust as some of the other firewalls and routers, but it was by
far the easiest Linux distro I've set up to date. The Coyote build
distro is ~15MB tar.gz. Here's what my firewall consists of:
NO keyboard / mouse
NO video card
NO hard disk
16MB of 30pin memory (4x4MB)
1 i386 motherboard and processor
2 SMC-Ultra (smc-ultra.o) ISA cards
1 1.44MB floppy drive
1 Combo serial (RS-232c) and floppy controller
It supports SSH and has a cool menu system. I understand the newer
version has a webmin feature. You can backup your customizations to
floppy or via TFTP (I think). The whole thing boots off of a floppy
disk, then it decompresses and runs from ramdisk. The floppy is
never accessed again until a power cycle or if you mount the disk and
write as for saving a setup for next boot. I think the best thing
about it is it does its job and I never have to fuss with it.
Sometimes I doubt it's working and every time it's been my ISP with
the problem.
Mario
>One of my PCs died (MB won't post (beep) when powered up, probably fried
>the BIOS or processor) so I'm building a whole new home network. I've
>currently got a Linux machine running firewall connected to Road Runner.
>
>I'm considering replacing it with one of those Linksys (or other)
>firewall-in-a-box ethernet hubs. Wondering who out there has had
>experiences on either side of the fence with this kind of setup, or should
>I stick with the Linux machine running everything?
>
>
>Paul Braman
>aeon@tampabay.rr.com
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