Need Advice on Routers

[Lisa Kachold]

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On 4/28/09, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> Thank-you all for your suggestions. I am intrigued with IPcop or smoothwall
> on an old PC.
>
> As it happens, I have an old PIII and PII that I could use. The PIII is a
> Dell Dimension XPS T500 with an 800 MHz CPU 512 MB RAM, and the PII is a
> Dell Dimension XPS H266 128 MB and 266Mhz CPU. Which one should I use as a
> router?
>
> I looked on Newegg,and found these NICS - anyone have any experience with
> them?
>
> Rosewill RC-400 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI V2.2, 32/64-bit, 33/66MHz Networking
> LAN Card With Heatsink & 4 LED indicators - on sale $14.99
>
> TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR 10/ 100/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Copper Gigabit Network
> Adapter - $11.99
>
> HAWKING HGA32T 10/ 20/ 100/ 200/ 1000/ 2000Mbps PCI Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
> - Retail $16.99
>
> Rosewill RC-411 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express Network Adapter - Retail on
> sale $14.99
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:00 PM, Matthew A Coulliette
> <matthewlug at cox.net>wrote:
>
>> I am currently building a smoothwall router out of an old pc. Smoothwall
>> is a great piece of software.  I have 8 computers so turning an old one
>> into a router didn't bother me. It has a web interface for
>> administration, and can be set up with up to 4 zones: red - www, orange
>> - DMZ (web server), purple - wireless, and green - LAN. For most people
>> I would say that this option is more hassle than it's worth, but for
>> myself it is just what I was looking for. - MatthewMPP
>>
>>
>> Technomage wrote:
>> > Alex,
>> > yes, you can (U have done so in real time here). Also, you can isolate
>> > that firewall bridge from every other VM on the
>> > host without much difficulty (thus preventing one of the scenarios that
>> > would develop should you misconfigure the
>> > internal bridge).
>> >
>> > also, to put this in some perspective, me and a friend were doing this
>> > level of Virtual Machine work long before
>> > any of the white papers were ever written. He's the one that clued me in
>> > to how this was done and we both ended up
>> > doing a live running test under vmware server for Linux at the time.
>> >
>> >
>> > Alex Dean wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Apr 27, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> Mark,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a couple old e-machines that I made into IPCop
>> >>> firewall/routers,
>> >>> and have been decommissioned for a while (they were virtualized).
>> >>>
>> >> Do you mean you virtualized your firewall?  Doesn't that create a risk
>> >> that other VMs on the same hardware host might be exposed to nasty
>> >> stuff which arrives at the firewall?  I'm recalling Austin's talk on
>> >> VMs & security from a year or two ago.
>> >>
>> >> If I've misunderstood your statement, please disregard.
>> >>
>> >> alex
>> >>
>> >
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