Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:51:00 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> To: Andrew White <andywhite@ntlworld.ie>, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going small Message-ID: <407D7A04.7050709@nbritton.org> In-Reply-To: <20040414155534.GJTI1202.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@deskgx> References: <20040414155534.GJTI1202.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@deskgx>
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I'll 2nd that, I've been a happy m0n0wall user since pb14 (mid 2003?). the thing "just works". http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/ Andrew White wrote: >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. > >
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