Re: recommend hardware firewall

Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Remember that there are also power costs. The $50 routers don't draw as much
power as an old repurposed general purpose machine is going to. They also
come with wireless support.

Depending on what you are going to do with the firewall, it might also be
cheaper to buy just one network card and an unmanaged switch. (8 port switches
were going for about $20 a few years ago.)

I'm putting together an Atom-based system for just this purpose. Power
consumption is not as low as a $50 router (and probably never could
be), but I'm adding three NICs (1 dual, 1 single port) so that I can
create a DMZ and LAN and a separate management port. It should come
in at just under $250, which is quite a bit less than a dedicated
router/firewall with similar capability.

If you can do that with new hardware I'd love to know what you're using. I am
planning just that, and grabbed an SSD just to reduce power/noise, but haven't
bought the rest of it. What hardware are you using?

--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot

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