x86 Commodity-Hardware Router?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 17, 2004 @07:26AM from the pushing-the-limts dept.

neomage86 asks: "I recently had to set up a router for a small company, only five users at any given time, and the needed VPN capabilities are built in. So, instead of using a Cisco or other embedded router, I decided to just install Linux and IPTables on an old 200 MHz PII I had lying around. It's been working fine, and I'm thinking about doing something like this for a much larger network (3000+ users). Does anyone have suggestions on how much I will have to beef up the hardware to provide IP Masquerading for about 1000 users on a T3; provide network-layer filtering of the transmission; and route between 4-5 internal subnets?"

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Mirror by Mizery+De+Aria · 2004-03-17 07:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Obligatory /. mirror

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If you're religishitty, KILL YOURSELF!
Well... by jiffah · 2004-03-17 07:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I don't have the answer, except to ask for forgiveness when i say that "god that sounds sexy"
WILL SOMEBODY MOD THIS KARMA WHORE DOWN?! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-17 07:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Speaking of Cisco... by TrickyRick · 2004-03-17 10:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

A little off topic, but why has no one on slashdot complained about Cisco using the term
"hackers" in their TV ads about bad guys out of networks?