From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 20:43:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C4C01065687 for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 20:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E72E8FC0A for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 20:43:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from max@love2party.net) Received: from vampire.homelinux.org (dslb-088-066-057-253.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.66.57.253]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu2) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKwtQ-1JyYUK0sOn-0004UG; Tue, 20 May 2008 22:31:12 +0200 Received: (qmail 25168 invoked from network); 20 May 2008 20:29:28 -0000 Received: from myhost.laiers.local (192.168.4.151) by mx.laiers.local with SMTP; 20 May 2008 20:29:28 -0000 From: Max Laier Organization: FreeBSD To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 22:30:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080520200116.GA69452@goku.pumpky.net> In-Reply-To: <20080520200116.GA69452@goku.pumpky.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805202230.58040.max@love2party.net> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/JKRshCVXFASObSHrxzFn8qsrrnKkLhCkOqPk u4NB5KI6uo8FmTWR18cyIFR2GMeYx2li3OzDbLbOFDVacRscPZ SQyWfb5+Nzwrofw97Vjzw== Cc: "Crist J. Clark" Subject: Re: Quiet Firewall/Access Point Device X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 20:43:48 -0000 On Tuesday 20 May 2008 22:01:16 Crist J. Clark wrote: > Right now, I've got an old PC functioning as my firewall/ > bastion host and as the wireless access point. It's running > FreeBSD 5.5. I'd like to retire it and its noisy fan (it's > in the bedroom right now). I'm wondering about fanless PCs > or even a flash-based system. Something I could put FreeBSD > on would be nice, but not required. I would like a "general > purpose" Unix-like OS however. It needs, > > - Firewall > - 802.11ag > - WEP and WPA > - IPsec > - IPv6 > - SSH > > The price? Lower the better obviously. I've Googled for stuff, > but was hoping for some recommendations from people with > similar working setup that they are happy with. Anyone out there? See e.g. here: http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=50 Also http://www.soekris.com/products.htm And of course pfsense.org is a good one-stop solution. -- /"\ Best regards, | mlaier@freebsd.org \ / Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 X http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet / \ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML Mail and News