What to do......

[Apex]

First off sorry if this is in the wrong forum but i didn't know where to post this.

Calling on my fellow HeXus user i need a bit of advice.

For a while now i have been thinking about turning the spare Dell D610 Laptop i have into a router.

While some will say it's a slight overkill for it i would rather put it to some use then let it gather dust in the corner.

What would your recomendations be, IPCop/ m00nwall / SmoothWall or some other ?

[peterb]

PfSense is supposed to be very good - it is an offshoot (or fork) of m0n0wall. Worth looking at the two sites to see which you might prefer. (but ypou can always try both! )

[Jay]

I would use pfSense....

http://forums.hexus.net/networking-b...-pictures.html

[Apex]

Looks interesting, reckon it will support the internal nic of the D610 laptop ?

Is it possible to use this has NTP server ?

Does it support DyDNS ?

What about UPnP ?

Does it allow you to put more then 2 DNS server in to forward to ?

[peterb]

I would use pfSense....

http://forums.hexus.net/networking-b...-pictures.html

I thought you might - with your experience! That's why I mentioned it!

Looks interesting, reckon it will support the internal nic of the D610 laptop ?

Is it possible to use this has NTP server ?

Does it support DyDNS ?

What about UPnP ?

Does it allow you to put more then 2 DNS server in to forward to ?

The answer to the first one is "Yes - Probably" But it costs nothing to try it. Or you could download a Linux live CD and try it with that - but the chances are you will be OK

Not sure about the other questions - but almost certainly yes to NAT - but you will need to read the documentation on the site to determine the full capabilities.

[Apex]

Supose your right, might has well give it a try, better then being sat doing nothing

[Jay]

yes to all those questions apart from the NIC Although I use bog standard USB NICs and it picked them up no problem

[gss03]

yes to all those questions apart from the NIC Although I use bog standard USB NICs and it picked them up no problem

Jay,

Where did you pick up those USB NICs from?
Much cheapness?

[Jay]

I actually "borrowed" them from work

They where a few quid each, i'll have a look where they got them from.