If possible, it??™s better to use a broadband or other Ethernet interface to connect to the Internet
because dial-up modems can require extra configuration to work, provide slower connections, and
make you bring dial-up connections up and down all the time. Because this section is meant to
illustrate how to use minimal hardware with an extraordinarily compact Linux, it shows how to
use an inexpensive connection type as well.
Figure 18-2 shows an example of the firewall configuration you??™ll create in the following Coyote
Linux procedure.
To create a firewall with Coyote Linux, follow these steps:
1. On a computer that has a CD drive and a floppy drive, copy the Coyote Linux directory
from the CD that comes with this book to your computer??™s hard drive. Then open a
Terminal window (or other shell) and change to that directory. (See Appendix A for the
location of Coyote Linux on the CD.)
2. Unzip and untar the Coyote Linux file by typing the following:
# tar xvfz coyote*tar.gz
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FIGURE 18-2
A Coyote Linux firewall runs from a floppy disk, managing traffic between your network and the Internet.
3. Change to the coyote directory that was just created and start the makefloppy.sh
batch script to build the Coyote Linux floppy disk, as follows:
# cd coyote
# .
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