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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Andrew wrote:

> I haven't been using BasicLinux lately, but I am now thinking about
> using it for a firewall. Any comments? Which version? How much tweaking
> is it going to take? Ramdisk or HD? I don't want to use loadlin if possible.

I was thinking about doing this at one time, too, and Steven recommended
against it. Presuming his thinking on that remains the same, may I
recommend you look at Freesco? It's what I use here for a
router/firewall/ftp server. It runs well on old hardware and low RAM. It's
based on the 2.0.39 kernel and does good firewalling "out of the box." It
can even run from a floppy disk.

James