On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:46 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm looking for ideas for a small low cost low power managed firewall which > would be adequate for small business. > > Most likely its just hardware I'm interested in because I would look to > install OpenBSD and configure it accordingly. > > > Three hardware ideas have been suggested so far: > > 1) soekris box: http://soekris.com/ > > 2) alix box from PC Engines: http://www.pcengines.ch/
I have a number of these (in service and on my bench). I am very happy with this platform. I really like the onboard bootable CF reader. I can bring my testing rig to the meeting if you like. Currently I have a Debian variant installed (I am not a huge fan of BSD). I carry one or two spare CF cards so if there is another OS you would like to see running on it you can bring the image in and we can see if we can make it work. I also currently have 2 different but well supported (at least in Linux) WiFi adapters to play with as well (a Mikrotik R52n and an NMP 8602 Plus, both are dual band 2.4/5Ghz devices). > > 3) netbook! Apparently there are USB:eth dongles with linux and OpenBSD > support. I don't know if this is a good idea or not. What I like about this > solution is its local and on the shelf. I also like the built in KB and > display which sometimes might come in handy. I have USB based wifi and wired ethernet devices. They can work unattended, at least under Linux (udev FTW here). I dislike the Atom based solutions as they draw too much power for the little performance that they give. This is mostly a result of the 945 chipset that the Atom is usually paired with. IMO there are better solutions out there with either better performance (such as a mini-itx Core2) or lower power (GEODE, ARM, etc.). > Of course a fw can be easily managed via SSH. > If you can't SSH in to it, it is not worth having :) > Other ideas? > I have wanted one of these for a while: http://www.plugcomputer.org/ > If some people are interested and we sort out something we all like we can > order a few and work together. > Sounds like fun. _______________________________________________ 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
