Need Advice on Routers

Tue Apr 28 11:11:18 MST 2009

Thanks for the suggestions. Newegg advertised that all the NICS I mentioned
are Linux 2.4/2.6 compatible.....for what that is worth! ;-) I will look
into chip sets as well. Both machines have run Debian before....the PIII is
a Windows box....it would be more fun to format the drive and install
Linux....one less Windows installation in the world....;-)

Now to find the time to do all of this......

The PII (and PIII) are both headless now. Is there a way to install IPcop or
smoothwall over a network without a keyboard or monitor attached to the
target machine?

Mark

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> I'd use the PII as well. You might need a little more ram if you're
> going to run snort or dan's guardian. Otherwise, it'd be fine.
>
> I've used many TrendNet gigabit cards, all worked fine. Most (if not
> all) gigabit cards I've seen use the RTL8169 chip, which most linuxes
> (and IPCop) support. I expect smoothwall would too.
>
> Mark Phillips 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 <mailto: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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