From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jens Knoell Subject: Re: Linux Help Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:46:13 -0600 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40FC08E5.6020702@surefoot.com> References: <20040719233346.4841.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040719233346.4841.SAVAGE-GARDEN@hanikamail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Hi Kev I won't recommend any specific distro, as that's pretty much a religious decision ;) But... Kev wrote: >Hi, > >I'm new to Linux, so i'm paling to install a gateway, with the following, > >1. Firewall > > that's built into the Linux kernel, no matter what distro. >2. DNS > > I'd go with Bind. There are others, but they've even been worse than Bind IMO. However, make sure it's configured as restrictive as possible - DNS has some protocol specific security issues. >3. DHCP > > No idea >4. SMTP (relay only) > > QMail or Sendmail should both do the job just fine. If you are only relaying anyway, you could however just set up SpamAssassin. >5. Email Virus Scaning > > AMaViS >6. Gray Listing (email) > > Errr... what? >7. NAT > > Comes with the Linux kernel, it's more or less built into the firewall code. >8 Web Cashing > > Squid >9. Web Based Configuration tool for all above. > > Webmin (comes with most distros, AFAIK) >the Box will be a P2 with 256MB ram but if i can get it to work on a P1 >166Mhz that would be great.... > > Should work fine on a P1/166. Depends on how complex your firewall rules are, and the amout of mail you want to process. Mail Virus Scanning is rather CPU intensive. Hope this helps Jen