Majestic 12 Milestones.

[Anarki]

This is weird, I am just putting together a pfsense box myself for all my routing needs as I am typing this

Trust me I'm no *nix expert but its so easy to setup, there are tons of tutorials out there to help you.

I ended up using my dual P3 box with 2GB of RAM, I brought a CF to IDE adaptor and am running a 2GB CF card for pfsense (modified embedded version - less read/writes to the CF card but with full VGA support)

It's just formatting the CF card as I type this, next up is to install the 2 Intel Pro100 server NIC's I bought for £2 each brand new

I'll post up pics of when its all done.

[DeadlyFire]

This is weird, I am just putting together a pfsense box myself for all my routing needs as I am typing this

Trust me I'm no *nix expert but its so easy to setup, there are tons of tutorials out there to help you.

I ended up using my dual P3 box with 2GB of RAM, I brought a CF to IDE adaptor and am running a 2GB CF card for pfsense (modified embedded version - less read/writes to the CF card but with full VGA support)

It's just formatting the CF card as I type this, next up is to install the 2 Intel Pro100 server NIC's I bought for £2 each brand new

I'll post up pics of when its all done.

Nice!

[hixie]

I did a little googling and it looks very easy like you said. I'm wondering how I can hookup the 3 pc's in my house plus my Vonage phone box up to share the line? Maybe turn my current router into a bridge? Or buy a switch?

I have 1 more question about the hardware part of the process; does the box you setup as the firewall require 2 NIC's? (I'm assuming 1 will be needed for the external WAN connection that will be connected at the wall and another that will connect from the firewall box to my computer/switch/bridged-router).

Yes you will need at least 2 NICs, one for WAN one for LAN. If you have 3-4 NICs then you could setup wireless and also a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)

Get a good switch, at a minimum get an unmanaged switch. Don't buy a hub, they're pretty dumb and get relay the signals. Switches do some wizardry and witchcraft so it's faster with high loads.
I don't know what's the difference but my cheap plastic brought from a shop hub didn't do very well, my more expensive SMC rackmount switch made a huge difference.

This is weird, I am just putting together a pfsense box myself for all my routing needs as I am typing this

Trust me I'm no *nix expert but its so easy to setup, there are tons of tutorials out there to help you.

I ended up using my dual P3 box with 2GB of RAM, I brought a CF to IDE adaptor and am running a 2GB CF card for pfsense (modified embedded version - less read/writes to the CF card but with full VGA support)

It's just formatting the CF card as I type this, next up is to install the 2 Intel Pro100 server NIC's I bought for £2 each brand new

I'll post up pics of when its all done.

2GB of RAM, i remember once running smoothie on 64MB RAM and i was still fine.