Eve Atley said: > > We are a small company (less then 20 people) that is currently running > Redhat Linux 9 as a fileserver. We have a firewall router set up currently > that is wreaking havoc, and we had previously had used the Linux box as a > firewall and router hooked up to our shared T1 line. We're looking to > return to that system again. With cost as a factor, can we get away with > Redhat Linux WS for this purpose? You could, but I wouldn't put my fileserver on the Internet. > Additionally, we had abandoned the Linux system as a firewall/router for 2 > reasons: to be less machine dependent, and because our ethernet cards kept > insisting on switching upon reboots (thereby causing all sorts of > problems). Machines are so much more fun though, and much more useful than those other things, whatever they may be. Ethernets cards should not be changing their config, something wrong with that setup. > If we upgrade to ANY version of Redhat Enterprise, would this solve our > issues at all, or are we totally barking up the wrong tree? The system > should probably be upgraded anyway as the GUI is as slow as molasses. Probably not, any Linux could be improperly configured if you don't know what you are doing. THen again ES3 with phone support might be useful, but expensive. I would go with something like debian and no GUI is needed for a firewall/router, but IPTABLES is you friend there. Good luck. -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
