Re: Looking for good and cheapish hardware firewall
- From: ibuprofin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin)
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:02:42 -0500
On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in article
<blCGg.451625$IK3.70008@pd7tw1no>, Garrot wrote:
Jason Edwards wrote:
Find an old PC and some network cards for much less than $200.
http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/
http://www.smoothwall.org/
I've thought of doing that before but I don't want another big box
taking up space and increasing the noise pollution. I already have two
PC's besides my desk and don't really have room for a third. I'll
consider it though and thanks for the links.
Two boxes "inside" on what - a residential cable connection? Think how
much traffic/speed that you need. The traffic _between_ your two systems
shouldn't be hitting the firewall, and unless you are paying a LOT of bux
for your connection, it's probably limited to something under 100 Megabit
per second. My provider supplies a dual speed Ethernet connection (10 or
100BaseT), and I've connected that to a 10BaseT NIC in what remains of an
ancient 386SX-16 laptop - no case, no display, no keyboard (it's admin'ed
over the LAN with a backup connection via the serial port). A second NIC
connects to a dual-speed HUB to allow multiple systems access. It's in a
cardboard box, and there are two sources of noise - the hard disk, and a
four inch fan, neither of which are audible above the noise from the
desktop systems. You don't _need_ a Quad Xeon with a Gig of RAM for this
function. In my case, the lap-doggy only has 8 Megs of RAM. As for the
electrical load, the _fan_ is consuming about a third of the total power
into the box (about 15 watts total).
Old guy
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