Firewall : WAS Re: was BabyCam now hacking

["paul_watkin" <paul_watkin@xxxxxxx>]

<snip>
> As Daniel said "Loads of people". When I was using the
Alcatel USB
frog and
> ZoneAlarm, there there hundreds of dodgy connections to my server
every
> day, including attempted NetBIOS connections...
> Now there is no-way anybody 'accidently' tries a NB connection,
it's script
> kiddies running IP scans...
>
> It rapidly got to the point where I turned the ZA logging off and
just let
> it silently block the attempts.
>
> All the time and care that you've taken to set up your system and
the lorry
> loads of software on it can be trashed in minutes by the s'kiddies,
<snip>

Some advice would be useful here, I curently have a basic setup of
1 Server running 98 until I get NT server installed
2 PC's (98se)
1 3Com Switch
1 3Ccom Office Connect ISDN Router

At the minute I have no software based firewall and as far as I am
aware the ISDN router doesn't have anything in hardware.

The server is on 24/7 but connection to the internet is on dial up
only.

I would like a recommendation as to what is the best way forward I
have looked at lots of solutions including Smoothwall/ doing
something myself in Linux (Suse 7.2) etc.

All of these rely on running an additional box 24/7 which I would
prefer to avoid.

Is there a solution using the existing hardware? or may be a
dedicated hardware route i should I pursue?

If the second box is the best solution what spec would I need?

Regards

Paul