Windows 2000 Server ?

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whrswoldo

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I have recently aquired a server (dual athlon 2000xp+ on msi mobo with adaptec scsi card and seagate cheetah 18gb HD, radeon 7000 agp vid, onboard NIC) that had been in use at a family member's office. The machine is running Windows 2000 server sp4.

I have a DLink DI-524 wireless router right now for my home network (6 computers) but want more control, specifically over bandwidth usage/priority (QoS?) and even more specifically I want to still be able to play fps games and surf the net when my roommates are downloading porn/music. Rather than get a new router I would like to set this machine up to act as a firewall/web router.

Is this a practical solution? I'm wondering first of all if I can even do this under win2k server, and secondly if it is as fast or reliable as a hardware solution (This is what I have been looking at, although I don't really need the gigabit speeds, and it is a little pricey.)
 
You could use a Linux firewall distro. A couple of them support QoS. If you want to stay in a Windows world, you could use Windows 2003 and ISA 2004. But, that won't be cheap for a home. IPCop has some throttling features, but it's not full blown QoS. I think m0n0wall will do QoS, but I can't remember off the top of my head.
 
Yes, monowall does traffic shaping. it has a decent little wizard that will help you set it up somewhat easily.

You could also try pfsense. Its like monowall but with some extra features. It has the traffic shaping features as well but the wizard is a little easier to use.

That machine right there is way overkill for either of these though. I have pfsense running on a 500mhz p3 or so and that's even overkill.
 
Hmm looks like I might try m0n0wall/pfsense then... would either of these distros allow me to also install FAH? I could figure out all the linux installation necessities, just not sure how stripped down/specialized the core being used is. Thanks :)
 
whrswoldo said:
Hmm looks like I might try m0n0wall/pfsense then... would either of these distros allow me to also install FAH? I could figure out all the linux installation necessities, just not sure how stripped down/specialized the core being used is. Thanks :)
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With some tweaking, yes.
 
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