Specifications

Firewall Administration System (FAS)

Figure 3.8: Conﬁguring the Hard Disk

Disk Swap Space: Size of the swap partition, such as 128 M

Further Options Activate or deactivate ‘Use /var on Disk?’ to set whether

/var should be on the hard disk.

Enable IDE DMA: Enables DMA for IDE.

If you are using the e-mail proxy, using caching for the HTTP proxy, or want

to save messages to the hard disk, the hard disk must be conﬁgured and

/var activated.

Network Interfaces

If you have already conﬁgured network interfaces, ﬁnd a list of these in this

dialog, shown in Figure 3.9 on the following page. At least one internal and

one external interface must be speciﬁed. Use ‘Add’ to conﬁgure a new inter-

face. In the dialog shown in Figure 3.10 on page 45, select the network type:

ethernet (default), ADSL, T-DSL, or ISDN.

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