Need Advice on Routers
Eric Shubert
ejs at shubes.net
Tue Apr 28 11:38:35 MST 2009
You'll need a keyboard and monitor to load IPCop. After it's loaded and
minimally configured you can run headless. I don't know for sure, but I
would guess that smoothwall's the same in that regard. (IPCop is a
branch off smoothwall).
Mark Phillips wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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>
> <mailto: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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