[sllug-members]: Linux NAT

[Chad]

On Feb 4, 2008 3:26 PM, Nathan Lane <nathamberlane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anybody know of a good Linux NAT tutorial or appliance/live cd?
> Because I am relatively poor and have no money to buy even a $20 router, I
> am wishing to use one of my many low-end PCs as a NAT router, so that I can
> have a little sub net to put all of my computers on.  So I was wondering if
> there is anything good out there for somebody who has never done this
> before.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Nathan Lane
> Home, http://nathandelane.awardspace.com
> ______________________________________________________________________

I had a Smoothwall box running for a while on an old PC I had.  I had
a similar mentality too, I didn't want to fork over (at the time about
80 bucks) for a simple router when I had several older systems just
waiting to die or be useful for something.  In the long run I think I
spent more on electricity though :)  The small box was sucking a
considerable amount of "juice" for such a small task.  I ended up
purchasing a Linksys WRT54G and put DD-WRT on it.  Now I have a lot of
the same advantages of running a full system as my router/NAT/firewall
but consume a lot less power and can put the little box just about
anywhere and not worry about the noise of bulk.

-Chad