So ive been hard at work over the past couple of weeks beefing up our home network. We now have about 7 computers on the network (2 pc's, a G3 iMac, a G5, G4, a macbook and a macbook pro) I've installed Smoothwall on One of the pc's which now acts as our firewall and DHCP router. It took several attempts to get this up and running, partly because of my linux newbieness and partly because of my shitty old Alcatel speedtouch adsl modem (by the way if you have the same modem drivers can be found here) Im also planning to add freeNAS to the other pc to store all our media, then setup a vlc server on the G4 to stream that media to the network.

beefy network with smoothwall Fri, 08th Jun 2007

So ive been hard at work over the past couple of weeks beefing up our home network. We now have about 7 computers on the network (2 pc's, a G3 iMac, a G5, G4, a macbook and a macbook pro) I've installed Smoothwall on One of the pc's which now acts as our firewall and DHCP router. It took several attempts to get this up and running, partly because of my linux newbieness and partly because of my shitty old Alcatel speedtouch adsl modem (by the way if you have the same modem drivers can be found here) Im also planning to add freeNAS to the other pc to store all our media, then setup a vlc server on the G4 to stream that media to the network.

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