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RE: Personal Firewalls


From: N407ER <n407er () myrealbox com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:26:41 -0400

>>Oh, and put a good SECURED O/S on that box too.  Def NOT Win98.

Just to add my 2 cents, you can do this with a 486 and any number of floppy-based or otherwise tiny linux distributions (and at least one BSD distribution, PicoBSD). Freesco, in my limited experience, is the easiest to set up, although comparatively not as secure as a linux/bsd router can be.

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