I just did a presentation on this at the last HackFest. And after working with IPCop, I found that personally, I would rather not have to futz with it all. I would rather have an ASA or another cisco DSL/firewall/switch that does Layer 2.5 VLAN, in place IDS, and VPN. On 4/28/09, Sir Light wrote: > Mark, > > At first, I would think that the PII will be enough but the back of my mind > says..."Naw... go with the PIII because one never knows....". It really > depends on what the router will do in the future. I have a DL380 G2 with > dual PIII @ 1.2 ghz running IPCop and yea.. it's overkill but at least I'm > ready for the future if I decide for it to do more a lot more work. > > Jon > > ---- 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 >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- www.obnosis.com (503)754-4452 "Contradictions do not exist." A. Rand --------------------------------------------------- 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