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Old January 8, 2010, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Myiagros View Post

Misterd, do you mean to just use a computer as a router using software to do the routing jobs?
Absolutely!

These need a dedicated box with 2 network cards of some sort but they run a linux or bsd OS so the hardware requirements are extremely low end. Mine is a 1.8Ghz Celeron with 384MB of ram.

http://www.pfsense.org
pfSense Open Source Firewall Distribution - Minimum Hardware Requirements HW Reqs

SmoothWall Express
I haven't tried this one, but a lot are based from it.

IPCop
This is what I'm running now at a couple sites, I'm not sure if it's under development even still, but it works "dam good!"
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