I chose to build a new system so it would be small and silent rather than use an old computer lying around the house.
I went with: Intel D2500CCE fanless mini-ITX motherboard (Dual core 1.86 GHz Atom CPU with dual Intel NICs onboard) 4 GB RAM 128GB Vertex 4 SSD It has been in 'production' for a couple of weeks now, and is stable and very fast. I also really like having the content filtering and antivirus capabilities of a UTM firewall at home. The management interface is a little weird at first, but you get used to it. I demo'ed the software in a VirtualBox VM for a week or so before pulling the trigger on the hardware expense. If anyone is interested, the page at Sophos describing the offering is: http://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools/sophos-utm-home-edition.aspx On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > Our Sidewinders are EOL at the end of April, and my manager doesn't like > them. > > He's a Cisco bigot, and wants ASAs in here. > > I'm fighting him to at least take a look at the Palo Alto platform, or > perhaps the newest iteration of the Sidewinders (which are now called > McAfee Enteprise Firewalls). > > That's an interesting tip on the Sophos solution. What did you use for > the hardware? > > Kurt > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I was going to suggest using the SonicPoint solution from SonicWall, but > > you've got Sidewinders, don't you? > > > > Does McAfee have anything like SonicWall's wireless solution where it's > all > > managed from the firewall? > > > > PS Sophos has this too, and they give their UTM firewall away free for > home > > use. Just bring your own hardware. I just switched to this the other > day > > and love it so far. I should write a blog post about it. (But then I'd > > have to create a blog...) > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> All, > >> > >> Quite some time ago, I set up an unsecured guest VLAN in our network, > >> providing wireless access to all of the sundry devices that staff and > >> visitors carry. I set up a small FreeBSD machine to serve IP addresses > >> via DHCP, and that was dead simple. > >> > >> It is a layer2 VLAN, traversing our backbone, and terminating on our > >> corporate firewall. > >> > >> However, there are now other tenants in our building, and the subnet > >> is getting too much bandwidth and address consumption - the range I > >> set up is completely filled, and the VLAN is consuming about half of > >> our Internet pipe, which is far too much for my comfort. > >> > >> I suspect the other tenants are leeching. > >> > >> What I've read of captive portals seems to indicate that the portal is > >> part of the firewall. I could be wrong about that, though. Regardless, > the > >> corporate firewall will not be allowed to be part of this solution. > >> > >> The only other alternative I see right now is to set up a password on > >> the SSID, and have the front desk hand it out to guests, after mailing > >> it to staff, and I'm getting pushback on that from my manager. > >> > >> Does anyone have some ideas I could pursue on this? > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Kurt > >> > >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > >> > >> --- > >> To manage subscriptions click here: > >> http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > >> or send an email to [email protected] > >> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > --- > > To manage subscriptions click here: > > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > > or send an email to [email protected] > > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
