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  1. 02-21-2010, 09:29 PM #1
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    Default Got an old computer laying around?

    That along with two nework cards built in or set in on PCI slots and you can have a fantastic firewall to protect your home network. Add additonal cards/interfaces if you want to seperate wireless or a webserver.

    However, the best thing I have found as a result of switching from a linksys router is the page load speed. Currently using a 1.7 Celeron of the p4 days with 512mb of ram and it rarely uses 6% cpu and 2% memory so as the specs go you can use a really old computer with better results than many of the "box" solutions available today.


    Check out m0n0wall for a bootable linux based firewall solution, I like it.

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    I run a pfsense (monowall with openvpn support) on an ALIX at home...

    BTW: 1.7GHz is really overkill.. You don't need but a 100mhz machine to run monowall. And a Pentium 4 is a waste of your power bill.
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    Any thoughts on what to do with all this old school SCSI stuff I've still got hanging around? Man, that stuff rocked...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rock & Rye View Post
    However, the best thing I have found as a result of switching from a linksys router is the page load speed.
    Even with third party firmware in the linksys as the linksys firmware is linux based? DD-WRT? Just curious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SCFoxman View Post
    Even with third party firmware in the linksys as the linksys firmware is linux based? DD-WRT? Just curious.
    Running dd=wrt on another linksys box I have, it connects blueray player, x-box to hp wireless access point across the room to my network.

    dd-wrt comes in handy on old, linksys. Carry it to the beach when we stay at our house and use it to connect to any unsecured wireless hotel connection I can find and feed it to the house. Foxman have not tried it as my main firewall connection to cable modem and I suspect it would be better than old linksys router with no wireless ie. no dd-wrt but the fact monowall runs at speed of whaterver pc you run it on makes me think even old linksys with wrt would not be close. Monowall recommends p=4 3.0 cpu for "line speed" but I think that's overkill as my 1.7 celeron sees no stress even with multiple torrent clients running on multiple macines on my network.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SCFoxman View Post
    Even with third party firmware in the linksys as the linksys firmware is linux based? DD-WRT? Just curious.
    I came in here to post this. DDWRT on an old Linksys or Buffalo or whatever wireless router is your best bet. Theres no point in losing the space that a desktop uses or spending the money on the extra electricity that the desktop will use, when a 40 dollar router will take care of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rock & Rye View Post
    Old SCSI hard drives? hold on to em' may be some stuff you can use em' for but then again don't listen to me I have a basement full of old shit that will prolly never be used.


    Bubb, good stuff. Wanting to work on VPN when I get a chance next week or two, might want to connect one from work and also hook mother in on a vpn so I can work on her stuff remotely without driving a mile or two. Prolly a 486 or something will do as a firewall but who has a 486 laying around anymore? A 1.7 celeron was something I had idle..... have a p-4 2.0 I/m about to switch it to that has much quieter fans. Thinking about buying a 1 unit rack with one of the cheap/new atom cpu's for a rackmount firewall solution in the basement.
    why vpn for remote work? there are sooo many other easier ways to do that.

    and i have a 486. it used to run pirated satelite code for all the channels...
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