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@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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