Out of curiosity.... I researched Linux firewalls a few months ago. Personally, I've been using Smoothwall for the last 9 years. Here is what I found: Astaro http://www.astaro.com/ ClearOS (formerly named ClarkConnect) http://www.clearfoundation.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS eBox http://www.ebox-platform.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBox ipFire http://www.ipfire.org/en/index SME Server http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=smeserver http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page Smoothwall http://www.smoothwall.org/ ZeroShell http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroshell ---------- Todd Young ----- Original Message ----- From: "Olwe Bottorff" <galanolwe at yahoo.com> To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:14:28 PM Subject: [tclug-list] Advice on using Linux box as router/firewall/file manager? I've got friends (really) -- who want to use an old box as a router/firewall/file server at the business. I told them Linux can do this -- all-in-one. But I've never been a serious admin type. Am I right that one box with Linux can do these things? They have a modem from their ISP patched into a Netgear Web Safe Router (RP614v3) and four Win boxes (2XP, Vista, Win7) plugged into the router. Could this router be deactivated and used as just a hub? Would file serving be done by Samba? O GM,MN _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list