How to Creat A Hardware Firewall/Router

Hello I have a question.. I am sick and tired of all these irc virus's and other virus's i am getting..

I have a spare PC Sitting here i want to turn into my network Router/Firewall How can this be done? Are these specs ok to work with for now?

1u Rackmount Chassi
Windows 2000 Server (Willing to install diff OS if better.. i dont know unix good)
900mhz Duron
128Meg Ram
40gig Hard Drive
Onboard Nic (Realtek RTL8139(A) Seems to not want to work.. Ive updated the Driver a few times it just keeps saying network cable disconnected.
3com PCI Nic - On Riser
Cd-Rom & Floppy drive

My network consists of:

Linksys 4port Router
Main Pc
Rackmount PC
ADSL Modem


If anyone can help me make this work I'll give you some service's once i get a server again How to Creat A Hardware Firewall/Router

 

 

 

 

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