I'm leaning more towards the dansguardian side as I already have a DLink router with hardware firewall built into it and see no reason to change that.
Furthermore, what I'm requiring isn't a firewall, but a "Dont'GoThereWall" so to speak. I need something that will identify a targeted site as unsuitable for a family and block access. Also, it'd be swell if a log was created and e-mail to a user's account. :P Am I right in thinking that dansguardian is what I'm looking for? ~Mike On 9/9/05, Jarrod Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 09 September 2005 11:39 am, Greg King wrote: > > identity port open). The power bill alone for a PC based firewall left > > running 24x7 for a reasonable amount of time is probably greater than the > > purchase price of this device, which operates with very low power > > requirements. > > > > It's not as interesting to setup/ tweak, but it is very cheap to own and > > operate. > > I'm not going to disagree with you, a hardware firewall/router is a good cheap > way of protecting yourself. > > It would be nice to see one of the smaller form factor devices put to > something like this task. Such a computer would have much less power > requirements than a full-blown computer system. As Dave mentioned you can run > headless so this would cut down on some power consumption. My system is a > P266 with like a 1 or 2 Gb hard drive, you don't need much more than 40Mb for > the install and the rest is for logs. It's an older pwer supply so I imagine > it's something in the neighbourhood of 250W instead of the >400W ps's out > now. I use a KVM for my IPCop box and my server and I usually have the > monitor turned off. > > I would dearly love to run this on something like Gumstix or one of those > custom tiny computers. However, size comes at a price. You can't beat the > deal your son got, that's awesome! Furthermore, companies like DLink and > Linksys release firmware updates to their devices from time to time so you > might see some additional features added down the road. > > Shawn's comment is viable, a lot of us have an old system kicking around that > are quite suitable to the task so the initial outlay of cash is nil. It's the > cost of power that would become significant over time. Ah, to have all high > efficiency devices would be a nice thing. > > Valid points Greg, thanks for the reminder. > -- > Jarrod Major > GPG Fingerprint: 4556 EFA8 EC69 7C54 EE33 C881 2C7C 0E10 2439 231E > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > -- Mike Bougie http://mikeandrose.blogspot.com Linux User 394239 697D3 F03C9 455B5 98819 9A83A 10F5C 4A710 34A0A _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
