Theres two options - you can do as you want and use one of the existing
machines as a firewall/masq box etc, but it will have to be running
linux. It will work, but will be less secure, and more confusing than the
second option.
Are you aware that any low-end pentium or 486 will work fine as a
firewall? it doesn't have to be a flash machine... I was using a 486 SX33
with 12 Mb ram and 500 Mb HD for about 12 months. It doesn't need a
monitor or keyboard (unless you want to display syslogd on it - herc mono
monitors are very good for that.) The other advantage of this is that
things are easier all-round.
At 11:02 AM 11/11/00 +0100, you wrote:
Hi,
I have two PC's at home and would like to share my internet connection
(DSL) between them. As I don't want a third computer here running all the time
I was thinking to enable IP-Masquerading on one of them and build a
firewall on it as well. It will be running Samba too. Nevertheless I'd like to
continue using these PC's as Workstations.
Does that seem to be a useful approach? I would really appreciate any
opions or suggestions you might have. TIA.
Robert
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