On Wednesday 04 February 2004 19:52, aronsmith wrote: > The old box will just be used as a firewall the workstation will be a > seperate box > i had an old 500mhz compaq that I had stripped the am and drives out of > so I bought 3 Nics at the surplus shop All 3Coms I have downloadd IPcop > and with 128Mg Ram (probably overkill) should make a nice firewall Also > want to be able to put my laptop on line also (old Dell 500 win XP ) > > > Thinking kinda like this > > DSL > | > | > oldbox(firewall) > | > hub | > ---_______|______ > | | | > (Workstation) laptop spare (slimserver? > Do you think that would do it?
I've got a similar setup you're proposing here except that I'm using smoothwall and a P166 32M box. No big deal there's not that much difference between ipcop and smoothwall. I gather it was more a social matter than anything else that caused the fork. 128 m ram is nice, that way you will not need a HD....watch your logs though, they tend to grow. I installed on an old 300M HD and clean it out once a month, if I wait longer it's full. What might get you flustered is that you've 3 same nic's so it'll be hard to differentiate between them during installation. I solved it by using 3 very different ones for red, green and orange( a realtek, nec and 3com). I suppose if it really starts to get messy you could put each one in, one after the other and reboot/re-install every time to solve that, at the worst. Keep yer eyes on the mac adresses i.e. have them jotted down before you start installing....that'll help:) Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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