Well, it’s finally time. In the next couple of weeks I plan on scrapping the old K62 450 that’s been acting as my router and building a new router. The question is…what OS? Currently I’m using FreeBSD, and while I’m very happy with the performance, I’d wouldn’t mind something a little easier to use. Does anyone know of any good tutorials on setting up Redhat or Ubuntu or some other flavor as a NAT enabled router?

Now before you go asking…”Why not just buy a Linksys router or something?” I’ll tell you.
There are 2 reasons.
#1 - Last time I checked there’s a limit to how many port forwarding rules and stuff that you can set up. My current router is already using more than those allow for.

#2 - By using this type of system I actually learn something in the process.

I have an old document a friend did for setting up FreeBSD 4 (which I’ll have to hack through for the current version).