Dunno if this is the right place to post or if there already is a simmiliar thread but i have searcherd with no sucess. Anyway i use Freesco as a router on a p233mmx with 32 mb ram and two realtek nics and it crashes after a while when i use bt or dc so i need a new dist who dosent have this problem.

you can try IPCop, a distro specially for this purpose

greetz,
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ip cop seems nice but does it only work through a cd rom? cus i have a spare floppy and possible a spare hdd but i got no spare cd rom. also can it route like this form isp to router then one connection to a single computer then ad second connection from the router to a switch and there from to several comouters

I don't know if it can be installed from floppy but maybe you can build in a temporary cd drive? IPCop can handle 3 connections, so 1 to the ISP, 1 to the home network and 1 to the DMZ (DeMilitairized Zone), so that's possible...

Greetz,
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You may want to try smoothwall.

http://smoothwall.org

I have a cd rom that i can use temproaly to install any router dist ip cop for an example but that dmz on ip cop is there no firewall for those computers at all? About smoothwall i dont seem to find any requirements.

DMZ, demilitarized zone, yeah, any computer in the DMZ doesn't get any protection. If you want all your computers to have protection, then simply don't put anything in the DMZ :)

Steve

or you can just edit the iptables configuration for the DMZ manually so enabling security yourself, however why want one computer apart from the rest of the network? if you don't want anyone to access that computer you can always apply a simple iptables filter on that pc instead of separating them with a router...

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I dont want to seperate it to another network but the first computer is my sisters and it is in the same room as the router and the other computers are in my room and i dont have a spare switch to place in my sisters room. Therefore it would be much easier to have one nic on the router to my sisters computer and one for my switch/computers.

ah in that case you can place the switch in the room where the router is, although you need to lay down all cables to your own room, wich is not a very 'clean' solution, so you need to manually change the IPCop's iptables configuration script. If you're familiar with iptables it's not that hard, as IPCop uses different chains for the NIC's I guess you can just link the DMZ chain to the 'normal' network chain with a few modifications... I have a spare IPCop box with 3 NIC's ready for my upcoming ADSL connection, I can check some modifications if you want

greetz,
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The problem is i cant have more than 1 cable to my room since my mother goes nuts beacuse she thinks they're ugly and ruins the apartment

hmmm I'll check out the configuration of IPCop again tonight, maybe you can just configure it to use 1 ISP and 2 home networks instead of 1 ISP, 1 network and 1 DMZ.

greetz,
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That would be great

There's a mod for smoothwall to do it I think. The smoothwall mod forum has lots of info on that....

Oki, ill check out tha forum