On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 13:13, Ed Wilts wrote: > > Tony, the best approach, from my experience, is to find a spare machine, > > say an old 75 MHz Pentium, and set it up with a pair of NICs as your > > firewall and network gateway using NAT. > > In my experience, that's the wrong answer. You're far better off, > long-term, to purchase one of those low-end home-oriented firewall boxes > like a Linksys cable/dsl router. Both of these approaches are valid. It depends on whether money or time is your primary concern. If you are on a tight budget then you should do as SWMBO suggests. If you do not have the time to manage an extra system then Mr. Wilts has a good point. My personal "solution" for a home lan would be to find the low-end system JD talked about and then run ClosedBSD <http://www.closedbsd.org> for the firewall. -- Your mouse has moved. Windows(R) must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [OK]
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