Help turning old hardware into a firewall

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

| From: Ian Petersen <ispeters-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

| I have an old HP Pavilion 8260 that I'd like to turn into a Smoothwall
| firewall for my home network but I'm having trouble with the new
| network cards that I bought for the internal and DMZ interfaces.

| I've never had such trouble with hardware before, so I'm really not
| sure what to do next.  I found a couple of forum pages suggesting that
| a BIOS upgrade sometimes fixes problems similar to mine, but I have no
| clue where to find such an upgrade.

BIOS Version 4.06 (3 Jun 1998):

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12454&prodSeriesId=46174&prodNameId=14076&swEnvOID=54&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=pv102en

|  (Googling has turned up little.)

I got this through Googling.

| Is it possible that the PCI hardware on the motherboard would support
| PCI spec 2.2 if it had the appropriate BIOS?

I've not had such a problem, but then I've not tried 1G network
cards.
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