-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > > > Joe Shuttleworth wrote: >> Thanks for the input. It looks like installing IPCop is best on a >> separate computer. >> I have a P3 I could use. I was just wondering how much power it would >> use to have another computer running ? >> >> Would using a router give enough protection or would I need a firewall? >> > You can always 'hack' a wrt router and put some FOSS software on it. > > google for openwrt & tomato > > http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
The tomato firmware is a little out of date, I would avoid it given that a lot has changed in the past couple of years. > http://openwrt.org/ > And others... I am a big fan of openwrt. You can even run openwrt on X86 hardware, giving you the best of both worlds IMO. Of course I am now right back where I started, a vanilla Linux box where the routing, netfilter, DNS, etc is all configured by hand. > > Running a computer has a bigger environmental impact than a little > 12Volt device... > There is a middle path. I am putting together an Intel Atom based system to use as my firewall/router (John how was your experience with the ALIX? For me those ALIX boards just do not have enough jam for SNORT @ 15Mbit...) and IDS. Also, like Shawn, I dislike how some words like "router" and "firewall" have been abused. As much as I would like everyone to understand the subtle differences, for the purpose of this discussion you can use them interchangeably. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoy0RMACgkQwRXgH3rKGfPymQCeLE9rbH56QiZPat2K7zJNj5IR Wb8AoJiD/k5zryvaUmqD59tirVmIgL0M =Ivzj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
