> 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/ >
Actually, IPCop may be a better choice. Its roots are smoothwall, but it's had a lot of improvements since it branched off. Its really worth a look. http://www.ipcop.org. Its free, with an active support community and email list.
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