When going to describe this page, I was given a great haiku:

Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No-one hears your screams.

A perfect introduction to the science of creating a LinuxRouterBox!

What does a Linux Router Box do?

Connects to the Internet (via ADSL, dial-up, etc), provides NAT and 'masquerading' of the connection to any number of computers on your network. Provides a FireWall. Allows you to provide a LocalMailServer?, a WebServer, DynamicDNS, any of the useful things you might want to do with any server machine.

What you will need

• An old computer - anything from a 486 up is permissable, but if you have to use a 486, chances are someone can give you a Pentium class CPU for free.
• CD-ROM drive
• Network card
• DebianLinux CDs

This introduction is written with the new Linux user in mind. This task is perhaps easier to provide under another distribution (see SelectingADistribution

Incomplete; being worked on.