[Tfug] getting away from windoze

[johngalt1]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <lukkystarr at excite.com>
To: <tfug at tfug.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 6:28 AM
Subject: [Tfug] getting away from windoze


>
> Hello all, Steve here.
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> I also have an old Tyan Trinity machine in the other room I'm getting set 
> up with a few network cards to set up a router machine.  There are other 
> older machines around here I want to use, one for file server and machines 
> for other distros as well.  It's the networking thing, I want to get over 
> my befuddlement of the whole thing.  I'm tired of making changes to 
> configuration files and my router without knowing what I'm doing.

If you simply want to stop being befuddled, you could use a firewall distro 
like IPCop. It is good because it is well tested and has lots of peer review 
& support. You can customize it a lot too