On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 the mental interface of Balazs Javor told: > Hi, > > I have an ADSL Internet access and I'm planning to set up > some sort of firewall/gateway for my home network. > Here's what I roughly have in mind: > NAT / port forwarding > packet filtering > bandwidth management / trafic shaping > some sort of secure access for my laptop through wireless network > > I was wondering what sort of processing power is needed for such a > computer? > > I'm asking this because whatever solution I chose, I want it to be > silent as I already have a lot of noise comming from the other PCs. > So what I try to decide is whether to use some commercially available > hardware firewall like the ZyXEL ZyWALL10, or maybe an old second hand > laptop running Debian. SMC-Baricade works well for me. No probs with hacking or anything else (did I noticed everything?). You can also set up an at least 200MHz box with ipchains and ipmasq. Those boxes don't need a fan for cooling thr cpu ;-). HTH -- Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads ;-)
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