[Tfug] router/firewall distro

[Chris Mathis]

is it possible to run a router/firewall back through the same lan card (just
a question... i know that you can get a lan card for about 7 bucks right
now...) if so what about through-put on that system... also what about
putting it on a dx 33 would that have the processing time/power to get
things going???

Chris Mathis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Angus Scott-Fleming" <angussf@geoapps.com>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] router/firewall distro


> On 11 Sep 2002 at 16:43, s  wrote:
>
> > smoothwall is really good, it's what I use for my firewall
>
> The 'gentleman' who wrote/maintains smoothwall is a flaming jerk, and he
has
> driven away many of the "freeloaders" (his word) who don't buy his
commercial
> version.  So many were driven away that they forked a new distro called
IPCop
> -- google for it, as it's NOT on ipcop.org.
>
> I have a number of freesco boxes running -- all 486es with 16-20mb RAM and
> 100mb drives, although on one of them I just run it from floppy.  I have
been
> very happy with all of them -- rock-solid stable.  One of them is acting
as a
> print server as well.  I moved one client from multiple modems at their
> desktops to a shared freesco with one NIC and one modem for the entire LAN
of
> 8 users and they actually prefer it as they don't have to go online
manually
> to get email, they're "on" all the time, even though it's slower.
>
> --
> Angus Scott-Fleming
> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
> http://www.geoapps.com/
> 1-520-290-5038 / fax 1-208-248-3124
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