RE: Firewall/Inet sharing PC help & Advice needed

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

If you've got a dedicated machine to use, I'd recommend something like
IPCOP.

ICS has the problem that it's very slow (particularly on older machines -
until you've used a connection shared by something else you don't realise
how slow.)

IPCOP is Linux-based, but it's a "install everything"
installation, so you don't need to know any Linux to set it up.

My concern, however, would be on the drivers needed to run the satellite?
Is this just an ethernet card that connects? Or something fancy?

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: psghome2002 [mailto:psghome@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 6 August 2002 15:54
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Firewall/Inet sharing PC help & Advice needed


After running for a few weeks with my Satellite Internet connection 
successfully, the modem decided to die last Thursday. After a lot of 
calls to the BT Satellite helpdesk (very frustrating and slow - but 
that's another story), I'm up and running again (The installers SBS 
are great guys).

I've got a Win2000 Server running all my HA apps plus Exchange 
Server. Originally this had the satellite software and second 
ethernet card, sharing to my home network via ICS. It also had Zone 
Alarm Pro on for firewall protection. All worked great until the 
satellite went down which also took the rest of the network down :(

You might think a case of 'all of my eggs in one basket'? I've got 
another PC (PII 260MHz and 192MB). I'm going to use this as the 
gateway to the satellite and put a software firewall on this.

Now, I was just going to put XP on it and use ICS again but thought 
I'd ask if there is a better solution? I don't know unix although 
I'm willing to spend a small amount of time getting to know it if 
it's an easy solution? I found ICS was good but had some 
restrictions in that you can't configure it for odd 
protocols/services (that I know of).

Zone Alarm is also not particularly good for complex or advanced 
setups as it's difficult to configure in an advanced way.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Paul.



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