>I use pretty much the same setup...it's a beootiful thing. Used Freesco now
>use Coyote. The economic argument is a red herring. If you're a hardware
>person at all there is something about taking a useless box and recycling
>it. An old 486 box is the perfect platform for this as is Linix (or *BSD). I
>bet this setup can toss packets with or better than the best $100+ buck
>standalone router and is customizable way beyond the standalone boxen. No
>contest re: performance vs. a Win PC or Mac running software. My router is
>also a web server, dialup server and print server and could be more. It's
>not a bad thing to also learn some more about networking.
>
>Just my thoughts,
>Mike Wafkowski
>--------------------------
>SOHO Gurus
>Nothin' but Net since '87
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.sohogurus.net
I agree with Mike. I currently use a Linksys router but for a long
time ran IPNetRouter on IIfx's, 950's, IIci's, etc.. Most any old mac
will do as long as you have two ethernet cards or one card and built
in ethernet as in the Quadra's so the machine can act as a Firewall.
Plus I had them doing double and triple duty as fileservers, DNS
servers, FTP servers etc.. Networking is a lot of fun and a real good
way to make some serious coin as a side job if you can get proficient
at it. You need to know the physical aspects of running wires,
punching wires down, punching down patch panels, hubs, switches and
routers, cascading, some carpentry for hacking through walls and
floors and making things look good. And of course setting up File
Sharing, Users and Groups, sharing folders or whole drives, setting
up various permisssions etc..
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