Linux Orbit: Sharing Broadband Internet Access with SmoothWall 0.9.9

[ Thanks to John Gowin for this link. ]

"The first thing you need to do is choose your firewall/router PC. I used a p75 with a 500mb hard drive, CD-ROM, and 40 mb of RAM which was donated to my LUG. SmoothWall 0.9.9 works on any Pentium class processor, 16mb RAM, and takes up only 44mb of hard drive space fully installed.

"Once you have chosen the PC you'll use as your firewall/router, you'll need to install the hardware to make it work. For sharing internet access on your LAN, you'll need 2 NIC's (Network Interface Cards) installed in the PC to be used as the firewall/router. Make sure you get cards that are supported. In this demonstration, we used RealTek and LinkSys NICs. Install the cards as per the directions that came with them. At this point you do not need to install any software..."

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