Check your distro version for drivers! On 4/28/09, 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 >> > -- 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