Ok, thanks for all the responses. I really like the
idea of the Linksys firewall. I have one issue with it
though. I like to play multi player games. i.e.: Unreal Tournament,
Counter Strike, Diabo etc... I was told some of these games
need lots of ports or you can not see out the fire wall (or in if
you are hosting). I believe the linksys device only gives you
10 ports to mess with. Has anyone worked around this?
Thanks in advance
Kenny
Oh ya, one more thing, I will have both a Win98 machine and
a Linux box attached to this device.
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Another issue is the cost of running the old 486 box. FWIW, Linux with
> the firewall stuff running should be fine, but if it's an old machine, it does
> draw power. Make sure the power supply is running cool. The nice thing
> about the linksys is that it doubles as a switch. I converted most of the
> systems at home to 100Mbps. My wife's system has an on-board
> 100Mbps. I had to buy a NIC for my Laptop, so I got a 100 (cardbus), and
> got a 100 for my tower because I use it to back up my wife's system.
>
> On 21 Nov 2000, at 16:20, Kenny Donahue wrote:
>
> > I was looking at these. I'm still thinking of getting one for
> > my folks. I'm leaning more towards the floppy firewall
> > because I have a 486 sitting around collecting dust. I also
> > have enough ethernet cards so I don't have to spend a
> > dime. (another cheap engineer <grin> ). The linksys is
> > still in the running though.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kenny
> >
> > Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >
> > > I used to use IP Masquerading at home, but more recently I got a
> > > Linksys BEFSR41 Cable Modem/DSL router.
> > > (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20&grid=5)
> > > It includes a 4 port 10/100 switch, and also allows you to spoof the MAC
> > > address. I noticed that the cost was down to $128. I bought mine through
> > > Amazon.com a month or so ago for about $148. It is not a true firewall,
> > > but does block ports very nicely. Your internal systems can have static
> > > IP addresses (eg. 192.168.1.5 or dynamic addresses (192,168.1.100+).
> > > These are fully configurable. I have benchmarked my laptop and tower
> > > through the switch, and I seem to get close to 100Mbps. Both Linksys
> > > and Netgear have similar units. The similar Netgear model is RT314
> > > (http://netgear.opusnet.com/categories.asp?xrp=4&yrp=12)
> > >
> > > On 21 Nov 2000, at 13:55, Kenny Donahue wrote:
> > >
> > > > Well, cable modems are finally available in Nashua
> > > > (and there was much rejoicing). I would like to set
> > > > up a "firewall on a floppy" using my old 486. I've
> > > > found several that seem to do want but I really don't
> > > > know much about firewalls. Which one's are people
> > > > happy with and which ones are hated? How do you deal
> > > > with the dynamic IP?
> > > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Associate Director
> > > Boston Linux and Unix user group
> > > http://www.blu.org
>
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