On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Thing wrote:
>
> I wonder if there is a market to supply small linux firewalls to people?

Ask the Linux Router Project people.

> Supply a CD with a linux system mirrored on it and then just copy it across
> with some batch/script files which auto run?

The Linux Router Project seems quite good, and simply to use, can fit on a
floppy. A friend of mine (well actually my boss, but that makes him seem
less computer knowedgeable than what he is) who has had little/no linux
experience downloaded it, stuck the floppy in a computer, answered a few
questions and less than 1 hour later (he didn't mention a time but he would
have said if it was longer than an hour), had a smarter version on the M10
automatically ringing up his ISP, doing NAT, DHCP, etc.

It can be configured to do more than that, like web server, terminal server,
X terminal.

see http://www.linuxrouter.org/

Andrew Gordon
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Received on Thu Jul 8 14:19:56 1999