On Saturday, July 10, 2004, at 05:41 PM, Philip Stortz wrote:
some of the better routers/firewalls will let you set this up, you want one that is
"managed" which basically means you get to set it up in a complex way rather than have it
just push data around. you might also check freebsd.org, there may be a program there to
do it using an old mac as your managed router (and thus saving a lot of money unless you
can steal one on ebay, though in that case you want to make very certain that it has
manuals or that you can download the manuals). i haven't played with managed routers, but
that's what you need and i think they are very expensive when new. freebsd is probably
your best bet for something with a reasonable cost and an old mac dedicated to routing
will keep up with no problems, a IIc will even keep up with a cable modem when running as
a firewall and could probably handle that and the routing with out breaking a sweat.
obviously if you have a T1 line or something really fast you'll need a faster machine or a
commercial solution.
FreeBSD is not ready for primetime on a Mac yet as most of the development work is geared to the x86, sparc, and the new 64 bit processors from AMD/Intel. NetBSD is the version ported to over 50 platforms and both Mac 68k and Mac PPC are well supported and documented. ipfw is the solid firewall in the FreeBSD distro and I understand when 5.3 is released later this year they will make OpenBSD's pf as the default. I'm certain this is included in the ports tree for NetBSD so you can install this via pkg-add or possibly choose it during an install. I personally have yet to try an install of NetBSD on a Mac as I have clones that have question marks attached to both.
Pax,
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