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pfSense is yet another opensource firewall which can turn your old PC into a fully functional Firewall. pfSense opensource firewall is based on the m0n0wall opensource embedded firewall with all the good features of m0n0wall and advanced addition features.

pfSense uses OpenBSD's ported packet filter, FreeBSD 6.1 ALTQ (HSFC) for excellent packet queueing and integrated package managegement system for extending with new features.

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m0n0wall is a free opensource embedded firewall that runs on embedded PCs (recommended) and other generic standard PC workstations that can run FreeBSD or rather supported by FreeBSD. m0n0wall firewall provides most of the features provided by a commercial firewall.

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Quagga is a routing software suite, providing implementations of OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIP v1 and v2, RIPng and BGP-4 and supports IPv4 and IPv6 on Unix platforms, particularly FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris and NetBSD. Quagga also supports special BGP Route Reflector and Route Server behavior.

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Perlbal is a Perl-based reverse proxy load balancer and a web server which can server millions of requests a day. Perlbal is a single-threaded event-based server supporting HTTP load balancing and web serving. Read more… »

Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL license. Read more… »

Use the hostname command in Windows and in most Unix and Linux versions to get the actual hostname of the system. In Windows, from the command prompt simply type,

c:\>hostname MYCOMPUTER

In Linux or unix, from the terminal window type hostname,

mycomputer$ hostname

This should show the computer name.