Ever wondered if it’s possible to get a full-featured server for your network that provides all the popular daemons (apache, mysql, ftp, mail, samba)? How about acting as a gateway at the same time by offering a secure firewall, intrusion detection and prevention rules, traffic shaping and bandwidth monitoring tools? Well, it is possible but unfortunately the time to install all of this takes an overwhelmingly long time - about 30 minutes.
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