I am going to be building a inexpensive Linux box to act as a firewall/router for my cable connection in the next month or so. But I am new to it and have a couple of questions.
1) How do I know the hardware I want to use is Linux compatible?
2) What is the most newbie friendly distro, Mandrake or Redhat?
3) What are some good websites that I can do some reading on in the meantime?
4) I want to also run a web and email server, just for practice, on that box. Should I or use another box one hop away from the firewall?
Thanks
1) How do I know the hardware I want to use is Linux compatible?
2) What is the most newbie friendly distro, Mandrake or Redhat?
3) What are some good websites that I can do some reading on in the meantime?
4) I want to also run a web and email server, just for practice, on that box. Should I or use another box one hop away from the firewall?
Thanks