Re: Diskless Linux based firewalls?

From: Linux Lover (linuxlover992000_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/29/03

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    linuxlover992000@yahoo.com (Linux Lover) wrote in message news:<7687bfbd.0309251452.58b353f2@posting.google.com>...
    > My questions are:
    >
    > 1) In case I overlooked an existing product: Is there a hardware
    > firewall that costs less than $200 that has no such limit?
    >
    > 2) Is there a low-power PC with the same "sexy" small form factor as
    > the Netgear FR114P that runs Linux **without** an HDD or CDROM drive
    > (i.e. completely diskless and fanless, just as the Netgear FR114P is).
    >

    Thank you ALL for your very helpful and informative answers. I looked
    at all of them and then realized: what I am really interested in is a
    complete hardware/software Linux box (small & sexy one) that meets the
    criteria above (fanless/diskless, cost<$200) in which all I have to do
    is turn it on, enter my additional IPTABLES rules and that's it.

    Does such a box exist?

    The board at http://www.soekris.com comes very close, but it is not a
    turn-key solution - I'll have to build a box, drill, etc. find a flash
    disk for it, etc. (not to mention that it is really more expensive
    than what I outlined in my original posting).

    Thanks!

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