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I have an old 233mhz system running on windows 98se and I'd like to use that one as a firewall to protect my newer pcs. Is that possible? What software would I need and what's the setup like, thanks in advance.
by the way, i don't want to buy a router right now, I just got my old 9 port hub and three systems, the older one is the firewall...thanks.

The best thing to do would be to install linux on it and use it as a firewall. In order to really answer whether or not you could do somehting w/98 though, you need to list more details like how are the pc's conenct to the internet, each other, etc.

Well Mike, i think the linux idea would be great, I'd like to know how. But if I can do something with win98, it would be great. The pc is connected to a hub and my wifi internet is connected to the hub..the rest of the pcs are also connected to this hub...

given that the pc's dont pass through the 98 pc as a gateway, I dont know that the 98PC is really capable of doing what you are asking of it. Maybe someone else can think of something I am not thinking of but, with this setup, I'm thinking it might not work.

Even though you said you dont want to, go out and buy a $20 4 port router. They are dirt cheap, you will end up wasting more time setting up a less secure router out of that pc then you would a cheap router.

You could use the Linux Smoothwall on your old computer, it's free as well...
http://smoothwall.org/get/

buy a mac it has not had a virus sence 1997
market share still dicktates with the 72,000
-viruses for windows there is a lets say 4% market share
-for mac that means there should be at least 18,000
-virus for mac but there is 0, why becouse of "BSD
-scurity" on a mac!what is bsd?
-BSD is a programing language on its own that has given
-every object on a mac it's own set of privleges (is used
-on a lot of super computers) these privleges let people
-read and write to files.what revelence does it have to viruses and hackers?
-viruses have to be programed to destroy the system
-how can they do that if even u can't do that?
-not only do they have to have the master password
-witch is encoded into the unix and BSD mainframe
-they have no way of activating unless u give them the
-master password and load the programs if there in start
-up items they can be (force quited) and removed form
-the list of 2 items by the user removing them his list
-linux's scuritty is not ven as good as a macs and it
-doesent even have a defined sysetem that is bacelineWhy cant a virus just modify the system so it kills itself?
-only the master user (system) can let it change those
-files but the master user isn't a person she is the
-system she doesent have a will of her own she won't
-issue commands to let it happen without the password.Well then can't i just make a virus that gets the password
from the users.
-you can do that but it has to be downloaded by the user
-and has to ask for the password (most users wont care
-and just might give the password well they scrued up)
-and luckly u still have a lot of protocalls in the system
-that might just say i don't like what ure doing to the
-system i will alert the user so he can stop this violation.hackers have the same problems and more.
-hacker havesame problems he doesent even have
-permission to see those files so to see them u need to
-know how to program in terminal,bsd,unix,and core
-darwinnow do u even think spiware can get throw this i think not
now if u want to program for the macif u want to make applications and programs the software
(just a side note its free with the computer)
can be downloaded free if u get a free account at apple
devolopersmacs also beet windows in overall speed regardless of
what anyone says under me i will tell u why.
-all games that require windows speed are using a visual
-interface (all games not text baced) have to have a good
-graphics card the top cards are built into a mac
-(incresses price of a mac right there) sound cards are
-next (more money) and FPS (must be about 30-48)
-well why doesent mac have the speed of windows then
-(nobody even trys to compair) well the games were built
-first for windows then for macs any bommed game
-uasly doesent reach mac only the best games reach
-mac (automatic spam filter LOL) and some good games
-will never reach a mac but when they do (uasly they are
-improved so they are much better then there windows
-counterpart but this extra work cant do much in terms
-of how fast the game will run in the end (at least
-compaired to there windows counterpart witch has
-been built from the biggining to work fast on windows
-but the graphichs are more refined on a mac then a
-windows so u end up trading speed for graphics
woo what a rant oh well its all true so don't complain I am
just helping as i see fit u want to say im bashing windows
u can i give u my permissionohhh and i forgot to tell u
bill gates is what we call a monoply why a monoply is
something
(exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by
the power to control prices and exclude competition and
that esp. is developed willfully rather than as the result of
superior products or skill)now mac has a monopoly of hardware people say all the
time bull s**t i tell u the truth just becouse i have the only
computer that works doesent mean u can get mad at memacs are by definition: A system that completely works on
all levels with its hardware!!!!!
if i could bottel water for company a in OHIO but i import
the water from alaska the water is bound to be flawed
becouse of the middle man but if i bottel it at ohio then
im going to have pure ohio waternow i only sell this water in CA
but the water from alaska is sold all over the country
witch is bettermacs are not hardware or the system!
there BOTH
people tend to think otherwisebill gates has a monopoly thow becouse he controlls the
system and doesent give us the best service-or-
alaska water is a monopoly becouse it is sold all over the
country_______________________________________________________
seriously monopolys are just a company that is in controll
and is abuseing it by not offering great service or maby
just highe costsGET A BRAIN ALL A MONOPOLY REALY IS IS PEOPLE
COMPLAINING AND KING BIENG TO POWERFULL(power couroupts and abslute power couroupts absultly)
im glad that apple doesent have that highe of market
share becouse it keeps it's moralls that waywindows doesent have any morells except we want to be
in power richness and controllbillgates was a smart man (he says i'll become rich if i
develop the system and they develope the hardware)
SO WHAT?people windows are worse then mac and thats always how
its going to be?
linux is much better then windows but unfortuently u
can'run many games on it () or programs it is seceptable
to viruses also 90% less or more then windows but it still
has viruses (can be hacked and has)but in the end it
tromps windowsunix = mac false
unix + BSD = mac false
unix +bsd +darwin +(c++) + "classic mac os 9" +
raw unadultrated power in a easy user interface +
aqua +pearl (well sort of) = mac os xdont u get it there is so much we havent even scrached
the surface1. P.S nortain is a virus in itself dont get it what ever u do?
2. P.S watch what u give the master pasword to ?3 IF U DIDNT READ THIS AND U JUST SKIMMED IT THEN I
WILL NOT RESPECTFULLY LISTEN TO WHAT U WRITE OR
RESPOND UNLESS IT IS JUST POINTING OUT THAT I HAVE
ALREADY ANSWERED THAT.!!!>!.3 IF U DIDNT READ THIS AND U JUST SKIMMED IT THEN I
WILL NOT RESPECTFULLY LISTEN TO WHAT U WRITE OR
RESPOND UNLESS IT IS JUST POINTING OUT THAT I HAVE
ALREADY ANSWERED THAT.!!!>!.its not when or how its what -
the heck is that shoot it down _
BANG! - whu that was a close one

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