RE: Minimal Firewall

There are some options here, but again it depends on the available $
willing to spend:

http://www.smallpc.com/pcswoutfans.php

Regards,

Jesus Zepeda

-----Original Message-----
From: vodhner@cox.net [mailto:vodhner@cox.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 16:40
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Cc: Jonathan Claxton
Subject: Re: Minimal Firewall

You're saying you know where to get a passively cooled PC? I've been
watching for this but haven't seen any out there yet. Who makes/sells
them?

Thanks,
Vic

---- Jonathan Claxton <jzc@globalcrossing.net> wrote:
One can pick up a small box pc that would power just a hard drive,
cdrom,
floppy and about 128megs memory and of course a video card or builtin to
the motherboard.

As for software... hmmmm... one that I'm running, IPCop is really good.
Monowall is anotther. Both are free.

On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 vodhner@cox.net wrote:

> Spinoff from the "Cable Modem" discussion:
>
> I'd like to set up a stand-alone firewall box, but it would need to
be:
>
> 1. Low power, passively cooled, quiet.
>
> 2. Turnkey on the hardware side.
>
> 3. Close to turnkey on the software side.
>
> 4. and oh yes ... not too expensive.
>
> 5. Ability to run sniffers, etc. might be interesting, but not sure
I'd use that.
>
> First that comes to mind is a Linksys WRT54GL router, running Linux.
I
> have no interest in wireless, and have a router that is doing the job,
> so the router features are not of much benefit to me.
>
> What's good nowadays?
>
> Vic

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