Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:10:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Cochran <jdc@fiawol.org> To: joe_pepin@ins.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Home Firewall reccomendations? Message-ID: <199909071610.MAA83524@jdcochran.fiawol.org> In-Reply-To: <NDBBLHINKKFIPHPHKAAEEEEMCBAA.pepin_j@ins.com> from Joe Pepin at "Sep 7, 1999 9:11:16 am"
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> Hello, > > I am getting DSL put in soon (finally, something better than the 28.8 I've > been stuck with for years). And am looking to build a dedicated FreeBSD > firewall. I was hoping to find some tips on good cheap (celeron, AMD, > whatever) PCs that would do the job. If I could get it rack mountable, that > would be perfect. The places I have found so far that sell the rack mounts > are only selling dual-pentium or alpha MBs in them. That's a little much > for this. If it's cheapest to build one up, just tell me, I'm prepared to > do that, and is there a place to get those rackmount cases? > > Thanks so much in advance, > Joe Pepin If you're just going to use it as a firewall, see if you can purchase a cheap 486/66 machine. You should be able to get one for a song and a dance and it's more than fast enough to act as a firewall at Ethernet speeds. If memory serves me, a lot of DSL modems provide an Ethernet interface. Hope this helps, John Cochran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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