Re: 10mbit fiber to home; NAT router can't fill pipe
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Re: 10mbit fiber to home; NAT router can't fill pipe

From: Al Dykes <adykes@panix.com>
Date: Mon Mar 13 2006 - 01:13:38 CET

In article <1142204913.475662.240360@j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
C Kim <cameron.kim@gmail.com> wrote:
>Though the fortigate are decent boxes, their cost is probably going to
>put you out of the ball park.
>
>I think a good bet would be to take a look at smoothwall or astaro.
>These are simple linux install on an old pc (think boot cd, simple
>graphic config, manage by http). They should be able to handle the
>throughput.
>

Put m0no or IPcop on an old PC with two NIC cards.

http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/
http://ipcop.org/

You d/l an ISO file and burn it into a bootable CD. Both are
"appliances" that require NO knowledge of *nix.

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Received on Mon May 1 00:56:31 2006