Re: [OT] Recommended Router Hardware

On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 07:30:22PM +0200, Samuel B??chler wrote:
> >>> I want to improve my home network. I have got a Laptop and an old
> >>> desktop machine. I want to use the old desktop for server services such
> >>> as web- and mail-sever.
> >>> I am connected to the ISP using a cable modem.
> >>>
> >>> Question A:
> >>> Can someone recommend a router with the following properties:
> >>> -NAT
> >>> -port forwarding
> >
> >Use your old desktop machine, just give it a second NIC to go to the
> >cable modem. Then install shorewall and read the shorewall-doc. I
> >should clarify this a bit: how old is the desktop machine? Debian now
> >needs at least a 486 and the installer needs 48 MB ram. If the desktop
> >is a 386 or has less ram, then you'll need either NetBSD or OpenBSD (24
> >MB ram).
>
> Well - it isn't that old. It is a Compaq Desktop EN, Pentium III with
> about 500MB RAM. But there is only one Ethernet-Connection which - I
> guess - can be solved by using a Hub or Switch, isn't it?

Not if you want it to be a router. Buy a NIC; cheap ones based on Realtek cost about $10. You have oodles of capacity for what you want.

>
> I now got a Linksys WRT54GL to which Eric Reymond refers to in "Linksys
> Blue Box Router HOWTO"[2].
>

Never had one.

> >>Question B:
> >>> Is it possible to install FREESCO on top of a commercial router
> >>> (hardware, e.g. linksys, netgear etc.)
> >
> >What's FREESCO?
>
> FREESCO is a NAT/firewall router/server based on Linux and runs on a
> single 1.44MB floppy[1].
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/freesco
> [2] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO/index.html
>

Your firewall will need to be totally up-to-date. If its a floppy image, unless its up-to-date, I wouldn't trust it.

Doug.

-- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org