McHugh

Yep! I had the same problem in my home but it was due to the fact that I host an Exchange Server, and I had Carbonite doing and inital backup on several computers. I relied heavly on my ability remote access back to my home office and the constant router hangup was getting really annoying to say the least.

I fixed the problem by converting an old Pentium III into a real firewall & router with IPCop. Ever since then I've been problem free!

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tr8rjohnk

This is great info, thanks.

I've been planning on setting something like this up for a while now. I have an old Dell Inspiron 8100 that needs an inverter (display has gone out), and a netgear wgt624 to use as a passthrough.

This info will help a bunch, thanks.

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DigitalSonata

Updated with additional m0n0wall info, see changelog.

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andyroo89

I actually did that except it wasnt 200 connections. The HD movie didn't hiccup when I had torrents downloading.

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Kriegen

If you were to also add a wireless NIC into the computer being used as the router, would you be able to use it as a WAP also?

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tr8rjohnk

DigitalSonata: Here's a pretty cool project I found. Its a branch-off of m0n0wall and after a bit of searching, it seems that its a good router/firewall. Let me know what you think.

http://www.pfsense.com/

The amount and functionality of all the features is amazing:

http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?opt...d=40&Itemid=43

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Yup
Looks pretty good from the features page, but making a comparison is hard without actually using it. Smoothwall looked good before I installed it, but I soon found its limitations. Perhaps if I need more than m0n0wall I'll try pfSense

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tr8rjohnk

Still doing some due diligence here, what was it about Smoothwall that you didn't care for? I hate how they have all those footnotes under features - its hard to tell what they offer and what they don't on their free version.

I think the issue with Smoothwall is that they have a paid version and obviously the free version should make you want to upgrade.

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DigitalSonata

Smoothwall does not have DNS caching at all. The traffic shaping is terrible (just options like setting priority for gaming, viop, web, ect, you can't enter custom ports, do custom pipes/queues/rules like m0n0wall). Port forwarding is also very limited, ex I wanted to forward 27000-27050 (steam) in a single rule, not possible in Smoothwall. For little things the traffic charts were not very good, and it had no DHCP client list anywhere. m0n0wall also has aliases for machines (enter an alias for a MAC, then you can use that alias in place of the IP address when doing NAT, traffic shaping, ect, so when the machine's IP changes you can just edit the alias and not 100+ rules.

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tr8rjohnk

That sounds like a great feature. How long have you been messing with m0n0wall? Sounds like a great solution overall.

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