Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-09-02 Thread Pavel Lisy
Ron Blizzard píše v Ne 22. 08. 2010 v 17:48 -0500: > Hi Everyone, > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a router > or gateway o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-28 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a Ron: We have IPCop running on an In

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-26 Thread [xfg]
And hanging in there until I see IPCop back :) -Original Message- From: Ron Blizzard Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 10:12 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway Thanks everyone. "Firewall" was the term I was having troubl

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-23 Thread John R Pierce
> Just to confirm. The Linksys wireless router can become a wireless > switch with the firewall and router capabilities disabled. (This is a > Linux version, BTW, so I'm also going to look into the firmware > modifications, but I doubt I can load my programs there and am a > little nervous about b

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-23 Thread m . roth
Ron Blizzard wrote: > Thanks everyone. "Firewall" was the term I was having trouble coming > up with. Now I'm overwhelmed with all the choices. I think, for > someone as "green" (as in "inexperienced") as I am, something like > IPCop might be an easy place to start. I'll experiment with a Pentium >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-23 Thread Ron Blizzard
Thanks everyone. "Firewall" was the term I was having trouble coming up with. Now I'm overwhelmed with all the choices. I think, for someone as "green" (as in "inexperienced") as I am, something like IPCop might be an easy place to start. I'll experiment with a Pentium III I have, but will probably

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-23 Thread Bent Terp
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Bob McConnell wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > > m0n0wall is the probably

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread Bob McConnell
Ron Blizzard wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a router > or gateway or...? I don't mind doing the l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread John R Pierce
> Look into buffalo tech. their higher end "n" routers run dd-wrt which > IS Linux based. > and dd-wrt is playing the closed source, pay-for-features game. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread William Warren
On 8/22/2010 8:11 PM, Michael Semcheski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Robert Heller wrote: >> Your Linksys router IS a simple 32-bit computer running Linux (typicall >> an ARM processor, not really any faster than a PIII, probably slower >> actually). A PIII has more than enough proc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > Your Linksys router IS a simple 32-bit computer running Linux (typicall > an ARM processor, not really any faster than a PIII, probably slower > actually). A PIII has more than enough processing power to function as a > router, DNS, and DHCP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:48:14 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a rout

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread S.Tindall
On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 17:48 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a router > or gate

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread John R Pierce
> Hi Everyone, > > I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to > filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus > the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a router > or gateway or...? I don't mind doing the leg work, I just don'

[CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread Ron Blizzard
Hi Everyone, I've got kids who are growing older and I want to build a Linux box to filter Internet access. I've got six computers on the Internet, plus the laptops -- most run Windows. I'm not sure if it's called a router or gateway or...? I don't mind doing the leg work, I just don't know where