Need Advice on Routers

[Lisa Kachold]

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 <sirlight at cox.net> 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 <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
>>
>
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