[Lincs] Security, viruses etc.

Dave Pearson davep at davep.org
Mon Aug 23 09:31:17 BST 2004


* Peter Cooper <peter at petercooper.co.uk> [2004-08-22 19:54:42 +0100]:

> If your children are reaching their teen years or starting to do homework,
> I imagine you might end up getting broadband or at least an unmetered
> dialup in the coming years. If so, networking your computers, and working
> out how to share the Internet connection between them, might be another
> long term project for you :-) (Linux makes it pretty easy, even if all the
> computers are running different operating systems)

And anyone doing this might want to try and beg, borrow or steal an older
box (it seems you can pick up such equipment for tens of pounds these days)
and throw something like IPCop <URL:http://www.ipcop.org/> on it.

-- 
Dave Pearson
http://www.davep.org/



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