Firewall and Hardware questions

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 00:01 -0500, Mathew S. Nowend wrote:

> It does not say anything about what flavor of Linux to use, That is
> one question.
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is this a question? Pick your poison
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> 
> Second question is I know I need dual NICS’ in the box but the custom
> machine
> 
> Stated above died. So I am replacing it and I just need to know if 512
> RAM and 
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512 RAM is probably overkill for a network attached storage, firewall
and web server. I thought that the recommended min. for FC3 was 192MB
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> If I need to go with  a 40 or 80 gig hard drive?
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depends how much you want to store
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>   Sorry if there was useless stuff surrounding
> 
> The actual questions.
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You probably are gonna want to configure samba &/or netatalk for Windows
& Macintosh file access if it is storage server but you can use scp/sftp
clients from either but not as sexy.

Good luck - probably best to jump in and see what happens.

Craig