Router/firewall help

[Martin Marques]

Mike escribió:
> I want to setup a stand-alone router/firewall using the latest Fedora 
> distribution. I re-built the kernel and modules, however I can't seem to 
> find any current references on how to setup the rest of the system to 
> function solely as a router/firewall.

Recomendation: Check IPCop.

> This is probably a different resource, however I will ask: I want to put 
> the system on a flash and boot from it. Since flash is painfully slow I 
> want to run the system from ramdisk. Any direction on that front would 
> be also appreciated.

What? Why would you want disk (in this case a flash card) speed on a 
router/firewall? Almost all that has to be read from the flash will be 
read on boot time. After tha you will get almost no disk activity at all.

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