Comment re home hs router (Score 1) 376
I use FeeBSD 8 as a router and also have a Slackware box configured. Both work equally well. My old netgear router
only handled 12mb and my cable can hit 35mb/s. Either linux or freebsd or openbsd for that matter make a great router
os. If you look around a bit you will find all kinds of howto's on the net. You can also make the box a samba shared drive and
a print server if you are up to it.
All you have to do is put fwo ethenet cards in medium power system (almost anything with work cpu wise 512m ram will also
work fine), install your flavor of linux, enable ipforwarding, iptables, and setup your routing. You will be amazed at the speed
increase.