Hi,

At the moment, I have a router with an inbuilt modem which is what provides the connection to my adsl line and shares the connection via ethernet and wireless. What I would like to do is put either IPCop or Smoothwall onto an old-ish computer and use that as the gateway. I assume that with IPSec/Smoothwall I would be able to do all the normal things like connect to my adsl via PPPoA, and have extra security with the firewall, MAC address filtering, etc...

Also, which distro would you recommend, Smoothwall or IPCop? At Distrowatch, Smoothwall's at a mere 86th position, whereas IPCop is at 33rd, so I think I'll probably end up going with IPCop...

If I did install IPCop onto an old computer, this would be the network's setup:
External modem ---> Computer w/ IPCop ---> Wireless & Ethernet Network Clients
Would this kind of setup be more reliable/more secure than just having a router with an inbuilt modem and firewall? I think it would because you can configure your own security parameters, so I'd probably end up following an IPCop tut and do it how it's explained!

J_K9