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 > > 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 > >> > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss