[olug] debain firewall

[Eric Penne]

Right now I need to get it setup to just do firewall/dhcp.  The next
step is to use it has a file server with samba.  I know I should use a
different machine for each but this is for my friend and he doesn't
have any other PCs.  Besides it only has to work for a DSL connection
on one side.  My friend is a linux convert though.  I've been running
my webserver at his house  for over a year.

Linux webserver 2.2.19 #2 SMP Wed Mar 28 13:43:37 PST 2001 i586 unknown
2:37pm  up 379 days, 18:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

and his webserver

Linux kramer2 2.2.19 #2 SMP Wed Mar 28 13:43:37 PST 2001 i586 unknown
4:14pm  up 267 days, 22:41,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

He has 5 IPs.  One for his personal use, one for his webserver, one for
my webserver, one for a wireless link to a friends house, and one for
his roommate.  That doesn't leave any open ones.  He wants to add a
file server so we thought a fileserer/firewall/dhcp server would give
him an extra IP if his and his roommates personal computers were behind
it.

I chose debian because of the strong debian support available on the
OLUG list.  Also because I really like apt since I got the netinst to
work so well on a computer at work.

Carl, did you do a net install?  which disks do I need?  I was RTFM but
was not sure on how the network install worked since my driver disk
didn't work.  I know the 2 cards in the machine are using the 8139too
module.

Thanks
Eric

--- Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu> wrote:
> Eric,
> Sorry that you are having so much trouble with Debian, I got it setup
> on
> my NO_BOOT_CD IBM thinkpad without a hitch. 
> 
> Is there a reason you can't use a canned firewall distro such as
> Freesco?   I've had super luck with Freesco (www.freesco.org).  (And
> no
> harddrive needed).  I use it at my office and I USED to use it at
> home
> (it has since been replaced with a full blown router/server at home).
> 
> The only trouble I've had with Freesco is the need for a different
> DNS
> server, but that might be my shortcoming and not freesco's.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 23:00, Eric Penne wrote:
> > Well again I failed with Debian.  I have tried to install debian
> about
> > 5 times in my life and a boot disk error has screwed me every time
> > except the one time I used the netinst from bootable cdrom.  This
> time
> > I downloaded the compact boot disks, 3 of them.  root rescue and
> > drivers-1.  drivers does not work.  I want to do a network install
> > since I have a cable modem.  I still have the woody netinst CD.  Is
> > there any way I can get a base system from that?
> > 
> > Eric
> 
> 
> 
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