[ubuntu-uk] Home network configuration

Mark Allison home at markallison.co.uk
Tue Jan 8 19:16:03 GMT 2008


> Change your search terms - what you want is a Wireless Router with a
> Gigabit switch. I found a couple from Belkin and Netgear. If the price
> is too much, try the following alternative:

Cool, will have a look, thanks!

> Save yourself some hassle and replace the Ubuntu server with IPCop and
> Advproxy/Urlfilter and your setup as you described is pretty much
> complete. Of course at this point your Wireless Modem is not doing much,
> so replace it with a USB/PCI one direct into the IPCop box.

Thing is the Ubuntu server is not only used for firewall/filtering, I
use it for running BackupPC as well - can IPCop run that? I don't
however see the need to move to IPCop as the Ubuntu server does
everything I need it to.

Thanks for the reply.



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