I've been using Coyote, a floppy-based firewall for several years. It boots from a write-locked floppy, and runs on a 486/32MB system with no hard disk. http://www.coyotelinux.com They're reporting problems with recent releases, so they've set the current version back - be sure you get version 2.16, or that they've taken the warning off their site. One can write the boot floppy under Linux or Windows. Walt Quoting Remy Boudreau <cyberem [ at ] telecomottawa [ dot ] net>: > Hi! I am somewhat of a newby although I have worked with Linux > mainly as web servers in the Red Hat 6.1 days (which worked right > out of the box...) I now work for myself and I am quite fed up with > Window$ and I am looking to move towards Mandrake for server and > workstation applications as it seems to be the most newby friendly > distro according to what I have read. However, I also have an old > P233MMX with 64 meg ram which I would like to use as a firewall > between my dial-up connection and my internal network. I understand > that some distros will do this in a friendly manner without to much > fuss (I have messed with IPChains in the past and found it to be > frustrating). > > I would be grateful is someone could enlighten me on this. > > Remy Boudreau > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://www.oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux -- Walt Sullivan /"\ UNIX & Networks, Security & SysAdmin \ / walts [ at ] magma [ dot ] ca X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN / \ AGAINST HTML MAIL See http://www.expita.com/nomime.html