Hello guys,
I was looking at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._distributions

and looked at
http://leaf.sourceforge.net

To be frank, I have no idea what to do with it.
I burned the image to a DVD and booted a PC with the DVD. I get a command prompt asking for a password.
Yes, I looked at their documentation. I don't get it. I don't know what to do with the command prompt.

Is there some easy to use Linux distribution for this?
Something with a GUI?
I just need to make a PPPoE connection.
I will have 3 NICs.
One will connect to my ADSL modem.
The 2 other NICs will connect to my computers.

i don't think this is suitable for installation on a consumer PC (which model/type/age/specs etc.?).

searching linux use pc as router distro, i quickly click through to https://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/X86
(but of course you should look at the other results, too)

The PC would be a Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, 32 bit.
512 MB DDR2 RAM.
IDE HDD, 40 GB or 200 GB, whichever I choose to install.

Check PFSense. It is BSD so strictly not Linux. But very good. It has a web gui. Basically you never interact directly with the BSD, only through the web gui. PFSense has PPoE built in.

jlinkels

Smoothwall would do what you want.

this mite be related:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ternet-774246/

This might be the thing for you
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=alpine

Guess you could have some settings in the adsl that could make the connection point it it too??

If you mean using the ADSL modem to make the PPPoE connection, yes, that is possible. It is a modem/router with a single LAN.
I don't have a hub.
Also, this is a learning experience for me.

I tried out pfSense. The PPPoE connection worked. DHCP on the LAN0 worked and got an IP. I was open the web page for the pfSense.
My LAN 1 (the second NIC) is old and probably defective. I will try another one.

Thanks for the advice.
I made the PPPoE connection.
I have my PC connected to one of the NIC of the PFSense PC. I set this NIC as LAN0. It gets an IP address and I can surf the weeb. I can ping this NIC.

It sets the 2nd NIC as OPTIONAL? I connected my other PC to this NIC. It gets a IP address but I can't ping the NIC and can't surf the weeb.

In your first post you mentioned that you have 3 NICs in the PFSense PC. So I take it you use one for the connection to Internet. The second one is set to the internal network. And according to you last post that works.

This is the default configuration for PFSense. If you want to use the third NIC for internal LAN (so your seconds internal NIC then) you have to configure PFSense in the proper way. It does not do that automatically.

I know PFSense can do it. It can have a second WAN connection, a second LAN connection or the third NIC can be completely independent. It it will be a matter of studying the user manual and browsing the PFSense forums. It is not difficult, I have done it before, I just don't exactly know anymore how to do it. It is just I am not going to read the manual for you.

jlinkels

Since PFSense is a firewall distro, the three nics are probably outside, inside and dmz. The inside port should be attached to a router to distribute network connections. PCs don't have enough expansion slots to make them into switches.

I was able to make it work on the NIC that PFSense calls OPT1.
Yes, there are 3 NICs. One is used to make a PPPoE connection and it physically connects to a ADSL modem.
The one that is called LAN1 connects to one of the PCs.

I went into the GUI. It was under the Rules section. There were no rules for OPT1 so I made similar rules that LAN1 had and now it works.
I can now ping that NIC port (OPT1). I can also use the PC connected to that port to access the Internet.

I guess I would have to compare with my d-link router to see what rules are useful.
Yes, unfortunately PCs don't have too many PCI slots these days. The one I am using has only 2. The other 2 are PCI-Ex 1x. There is 1 PCI-Ex 16 x.

I could try my old Duron. It has 1 onboard LAN + 4 PCI slots.