IPCop has worked well for me for a number of years. I started with an old 333MH celeron pc, added a couple nics, and was good to go. You wouldn't need that much power though. A plain ol' Pentium (win95 box) would do nicely. I run IPCop as a VM these days. I have my wireless router (wrt54G stock) attached to the orange (dmz) network, so wireless is isolated from my lan. Stephen wrote: > uptime etc... and the extra features is why im thinking about it. > however my gateway does dyndns, but im still wnating to replace it > with a real firewall and some of those features. but i dont have a > graceful replacement of the wireless part of it yet. so im kind of > stuck with it. (and i dont mind replacing it with tomato/DDwrt but i > want a backup plan first in case i brick it) > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Eric Shubert wrote: >> It seems to me that the gateway is a more logical place to put dhcp, >> thinking of your gateway as a "network server" (which provides network >> services). >> >> To be honest though, I can't think of a reason why it would really >> matter one way or another. >> >> Stephen wrote: >>> This is actually something i have been planning for a few weeks now... >>> >>> More incentive to set this up, but it will likely go on its on VM on >>> my server than locally. >>> >>> Im not sure if i want to use DHCP on my server or DHCP on myGateway yet. >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: >>>> Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just >>>> need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when >>>> you use yum to install it). You then need to have: >>>> nameserver 127.0.0.1 >>>> first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is >>>> directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets >>>> your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a >>>> router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your >>>> computer isn't sitting on a public address. >>>> >>>> I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't >>>> really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;) >>>> >>>> Brian Cluff wrote: >>>>> I've always found that cox's DNS server have been less that desirable. >>>>> I was actually surprised to find that I was using their dns at all. >>>>> I've usually setup my own, to get around their DNS problems. >>>>> >>>>> Now with cox hijacking all the typos, I would recommend more than ever >>>>> that people setup their own DNS servers. >>>>> >>>>> Brian Cluff >>>>> >>>>> On 02/28/2010 07:53 AM, Steven A. DuChene wrote: >>>>>> Yes, I am using cox but I guess the bigger question is WHY >>>>>> is cox reporting an incorrect IP for the plug web server? >>>>>> >>>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>>>> From: Brian Cluff >>>>>>> Sent: Feb 28, 2010 1:56 AM >>>>>>> To: Main PLUG discussion list >>>>>>> Subject: Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It looks like the cox name server at 68.105.29.12 is reporting back the >>>>>>> wrong address for the plug server. If you simply remove that nameserver >>>>>> >from your resolv.conf, you should be able to get to the server again. >>>>>>> Brian Cluff >>>>>>> >>>> -- >>>> -Eric 'shubes' >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> -Eric 'shubes' >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- 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