What is on Your Mind?

Aah, is that what its called! Thanks.

Seems like ill have to dig up another old computer... hehe. Do both.

bakunin, I heard you could install a antivirus on Unix that checks windows viruses. Dunno if this little processor can handle something like that thou...

Was wondering if this lil processor could handle the firewall with a squid proxy server and router. Coz this is what I understand would be a great setup...

Use the Routers built in firewall and set rules to rout everything to the firewall. The firewall will have two network cards, one going into the routers switch (Which would waiste the switch part) and the other going into another switch on which our network is connected. On that machine we have the firewall, behind that the squid proxy, and a Windows Anit Virus in there somewhere. Game ports would be opened to skip the proxy server so they can reach my brother's computer faster reducing lag. All other ports would be scanned for viruses and then cashed for later use (maybe).

Wireless would obviously not be able to run through the firewall as it is built into the router. Advanced routing settings should still be done on the router seeing that the firewall cannot connect to the modem directly.

Would this setup cause increase in lag? For my Gaming Lord brother would he realize the increase in lag? (im guessing all we have to do is forward the ports as directly as possible)

Most articles I could find is mainly based on larger networks for companies, not personal networks for normal families. heh.

Also seems like Redhat or Debian would be my best bet as a OS on the system? (where Redhat almost seems like the better bet)

Thanks for the advice so far. Really looking forward to setting this up.

Xethron

Hmm, i don't know what you are talking about: there is an antivirus product based on Linux (that is: a bootable CD with a Live sysstem with some antivirus software), which is called Knoppix. You can freely download it, but it is not scanning online. It is designed to boot up a system from a non-compromisable source (CD) and scan it.

Probably you mean some firewall with so-called "stateful inspection". Basically it is decoding the datastreams it routes and allows/forbids certain things based on rules. While a normal firewall would, for instance, allow telnet sessions to a certain host a stateful-inspection firewall would be able to allow telnet to this host, but forbid a certain command to be issued.

Probably it would, because - depending on the amount of IP traffic - the tax on the processor is pretty small. Every firewall, btw., is already a router, since a firewall works on Layer 4, while a router works on Layer 3.

Have fun building this and be sure to tell us what finally worked and what you did to make it work.

bakunin

You mean a router like this FREESCO Project

Puppy would indeed come to mind as the operating system of choice for hardware of this age. Have you thought of Home_automation?