On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:56, JoeHill wrote: > 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. Nope don't have a hub any suggestions? ( I'm cheap)
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