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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Re: Minimal Firewall
You can buy 1GB and 2GB lifetime guaranteed CompactFLASH and an IDE->CF
adapter at Fry's. They worked in every box I put them in except a
Gateway PC.

George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
My IT Department
www.myITaz.com
480-544-1067

Confidential data protection experts for the financial industry.


Jonathan Claxton 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 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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