Hello,

I finally have the time to finish my M0n0wall box for my LAN. Currently 
I am running on a Linksys router. It does ok, but there are not enough 
forwarding lines to handle my needs.

I have a small  base 100 LAN in my basement, and throw regular LAN 
parties of up to 30 people. I have 8 gaming machines that are mine, and 
a Samba server, an Linux web/FTP/Teamspeak server, a Linux gameserver, 
and a Win32 gameserver. All the servers except the Samba server will be 
accessible from outside, and the Samba server has NFS installed so the 
Linux App server can use it as a local drive. 6 of the gaming machines 
run Win98SE and have no AV software, and I want to block their access to 
the net. My outside connection is via cable modem.

A big concern is the computers my guests bring in. I don't have anything 
to prevent infection across my LAN, so I would like to set M0n0 up to 
have my "trusted" machines (gamers and servers) on one leg, the 
brought-in machines on another, and allow them to communicate across the 
on selected ports as needed for the games we will play. I would also 
like to allow access for people to access the fileserver for patches and 
mods to the games. If possible, I have room for a few additional Realtek 
NICs and 8-port switches and would like to further segment the 
"untrusted" portion of my LAN to help protect my friends from each other 
in case someone goofs. So I might have WAN, LAN, and 3 OPT (untrusted), 
for example.

Will I be able to achieve this with m0n0wall and still keep my latencies 
down to acceptable levels? I have a few systems I can use, I prefer to 
use a P233 box with 128MB of RAM but I can go up to a Duron 1300 with 
256MB if it is needed.

Thoughts?