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Liberal 
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2004,7:02 pm |
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I ran across a program called Smoothwall that will turn a pentium class computer with 32 mb of ram and a 600mb hard drive into a linux firewall and VPN gateway.
It's available at smoothwall.org as an 40mb ISO image. It creates a bootable CD that will install the linux kernel, the filesystem and all the handy TCP/IP things you need. After you install it and setup the network cards you control the whole thing through the secure webserver from then on.
It has a ton of features and even though the setup for my network connection type was seriously undocumented(PPPoE Bridged ADSL connection) it only took about an hour to setup.
I wouldn't recommend setting it up with a DSL connection that requires a bridged PPoE connection unless you have a basic understanding of linux and the vi editor.
If you have a dialup or cable connection this thing is awesome, one of its best features is that you can put a modem in it on the red network side and share a dialup connection between several computers. It even has built in dynamic dns support so that you could setup a webserver on a dialup connection.
I built a Smoothwall box last night on a AMD K6-400, 128mb ram, two nics and a 15gb hard drive and I don't know if the speed increased on the WAN side of my network but the LAN side is at least 3 to 4 times faster than it was.
http://www.smoothwall.org
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Grinning_Dragon
rideo draconigena
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Posted on: Mar. 26 2004,9:00 pm |
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Sweet,
Thanx for the link Liberal. I have several old Pentiums laying around. Will test this out vs my Linksys router that I have.
The problem with the linksys is after a few hours of hosting UT2k3 or UT2k4 the damn thing starts to overrun on the buffers and I have to hard boot it. gots to be crappy coding.
Was hoping after Cisco bought them they would clean up the coding, but alas not yet...
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