Hi Christopher, I have an old P3, that he would be welcome to.
Only problem is I live so far out of town. Can we arrange something? cheers Chris Thomas On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 23:34 +1200, Christopher Sawtell 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. >
