You can actually do this better and easier with BSD (in my less than humble opinion, but I don't like netfilter, and since no one can seem to use it properly with out this Montha script, most shouldn't).  IPfilter is much easier to use than Netfilter and just as powerful.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, and my personal favorite OpenBSD all should run fine on your P75 and run most Linux apps if you decided to completely switch (I can't really recomend that).  

Why do you need BSD for school?

Solaris is okay in the data center and good to play with to learn and you can put IPfilter (the firewall useable by all *nixes (BSD, Solaris, SunOS, Irix, HP-UX, etc) except Linux) on it, but I can't recomend it for home use.  And Solaris hasn't been BSD since SunOS became Solaris, if I remember correctly.  They still have alot of backwards compatability, but Solaris 8 is Sys V.

For a desktop Mandrake is possibly the best choice.  I would stick with that and put OpenBSD on your P75 and make it your firewall, router, etc....

Dusty


> 
> On Thursday 06 September 2001 11:18, you wrote:
> > SUBNETS?!?!?!?!  WTF!!!!! Just add a firewall rule!!!!  Something like this
> > should work:
> >
> > #iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp,udp,icmp -s <IP.you.want.blocked> REJECT
> >
> > And you are done.  I am sure there are several switches you could add to
> > make it tighter (like -f to catch fragments) but this is internal to your
> > house right?
> yeah I'll use this @ home .... BTW I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and I'm also using 
> the internet connections sharing , 
> could this also be done if I got rid of mandrake & loaded some kinda BSD or 
> even solaris on my pc?
> I need a full BSD system @ home for school related use but I don't wanna 
> reformat my RH box, or could I load BSD on a P75 64MB RAM 514 MB HDD?
> anyway if I decided to keep mandrake, where should I add this rule to?
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Julio
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