On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: > OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 > NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also > bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?)
Yep, you want straight through. > This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a > lot for a firwall but thats all they had) any suggestions If it has a CDROM drive, you can't beat: http://www.smoothwall.org/ Burn the ISO, boot your router box from the CD, and you got yerself a kickass firewall, easily admin'ed with a browser interface, though I think it also comes with SSH is yer into that. ...and since you have 3 NICs, you get to have 3 interfaces: 1 internal, 1 firewall, and one DMZ, where you can put stuff like gaming rigs or other non-security sensitive stuff. Run one cable from your modem to the router, then one cable from the router to the hub (I assume you have one), then one from the hub to each machine on the LAN. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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