From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 08:57:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56CBB16A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:57:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (mta04-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7873743D5F for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 08:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andywhite@ntlworld.ie) Received: from deskgx ([81.98.90.156]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040414155534.GJTI1202.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@deskgx>; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:55:34 +0100 From: "Andrew White" To: , Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:56:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510 In-Reply-To: <3a8q70tlt97mcr8llt61ff158gtudful25@4ax.com> Thread-Index: AcQiGS7s1hP4Ht03RuurNw6M/P9mNgAH69KA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Message-Id: <20040414155534.GJTI1202.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@deskgx> Subject: RE: Going small X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 15:57:25 -0000 You might want to try m0n0wall http://www.m0n0.com/ You could forget having a hardrive at all and use a flashcard instead, leaving you with no mechanical parts to fail... .Andrew -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of John Murphy Sent: 14 April 2004 13:07 To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Going small Hope everyone had a nice easter. I've decided to stop messing about with noisy old 486s for the gateway/ firewall. The one I've been configuring runs just fine but it has a large hot heatsink cooling some power transistor/regulator devices and I just don't trust it for 24/7 use in a cupboard... I'm going to get a Soekris Net4801 and fit a 30G HD from a broken laptop I was given. Just undecided whether to get it from the USA or Belgium (I'm in the UK); the 21%VAT against the better exchange rate etc. (Update: they were out of stock at the manufacturers so I've ordered one from http://soekris.kd85.com with case and 2.5" hard drive mounting kit. Got my name on the last one! I could have it before the weekend.) I don't know much about them at this stage, except they run FreeBSD of course and they're probably ten times as efficient as the thing I was going to use. http://www.soekris.com/ I'll write my findings here if no-one strongly objects. Some good pages I've found so far: http://www.xinu.nl/unix/soekris/net4801/ http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/ http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330 _9863_10524,00.html I'll be going against the recommendation to use a physically separate device for the firewall on the grounds that I can enable some server side filtering at the ISP and I can't afford two soekrises just now. So it will run ipf, ipnat, ipmon, ftpd, ntp, bind (caching only at first), sendmail and boa (web server). -- John. _______________________________________________ freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-newbies To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-newbies-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"