sdonham;240942 Wrote: > My existing home firewall is an old Redhat 5 machine (circa 1998) > running iptables with NAT and some port forwarding to other servers. I > need to retire this monolithic beast because it consumes a ton of > electricity for a simple firewall. Does anyone know of a small, cheap, > off-the-shelf, linux firewall that runs iptables or is at least as > simple to configure and change as iptables? I frequently SSH to my > current setup to change a few ports, which I like because it's easy. I > would love to do that same, just with a smaller more efficient firewall. > An ideas? Thoughts?
If not retire it, at least move to a distro that's had security updates this century. :-) I don't know what all you might need to do beyond what you've described, but there are a number of alternate firmwares for wireless access points that give you relatively recent Linux kernels, netfilter, sshd, etc. DD-WRT, OpenWRT, etc. Search these forums or the web. I think I measured my Linksys AP at about 7 watts -- twice the demands of a Squeezebox, but a small fraction of my MythTV/SlimServer host. Yes, I think you can disable the wireless radio if you want. And an access point box will give you several ethernet ports to work with. Most AP firwares default to bridging those together, but give you the option of treating them separately as I expect you would might want to for better separating the Slimserver host from the rest of your network. -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39991 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
