Need Advice on Routers

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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 <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> 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
>