On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings CLUGgers,
>
> In our community there is a retired, and therefore somewhat
> impecunious, member who has just recently connected to broadband. He
> owns two machines, a recently ex-lease laptop and a tower machine of
> indeterminate vintage. After expending much time fiddling about trying
> to use both the USB and Ethernet connections to the cable modem at the
> same time, I think, i.e. hope, that he has realized that the best way
> to connect more than one machine to the Internet is to bite the bullet
> and set up a router-cum-firewall using the likes of pfSense, IPCop or
> similar and a network switch.
>
> I am wondering whether anybody has a suitable, and physically small,
> machine hiding in a cupboard which my friend could purchase
> economically. An elderly P/II or P/III low profile desktop machine
> would be ideal. Alternatively does anybody know of suitable stock held
> by a dealer? Ditto for a ~4 line switch.
>
> Many thanks.
I have a number of such machines, and at least one spare. It has
served its time as an ipcop box. not sure exact specs but it is
similar to another one on my network, viz:
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 448.072
cache size : 512 KB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 255384 250516 4868 0 86452 22028
Compaq small form factor, beige, will delete ipcop from it. Is the
weekend soon enough?
Might have a spare 5 port switch too.
