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 > 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 > > > >> 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 > > > -- -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