Continuing my quest for a lower power consumption router/wifi interface after Gustav, I finally ordered some off the shelf parts together with a pfSense image loaded on the 512Mb CF card - http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=60_88&products_id=652 - I used pfSense because the old (power hungry) PC firewall used pfSense.
1 x m1n1wall wireless ready 3E 2D3 with USB w/ 512Mb CF card. 1 x 802.11a/b/g WLM54SAG mPCI card, 2 dual band antenna (KIT-ALIX-WLM54SAG-DUAL) Assembly took about 10-15 minutes - it booted straight up, and after messing about for a while I got a set of rules up and running that filter all the traffic to and from the modem (I'm on BellSouth DSL). I screwed up the rules once and restored the system defaults via the serial port so it's definitely luser friendly. Overall I'm very happy with the box - its power consumption is much lower than the old PC (~20W instead of ~300W I think) which was mainly what I wanted. The WiFi performance is much better than the old Netgear WGR box too - so both the PC firewall and the WiFi box have been retired. Edmund Cramp -- I picked up a Magic 8-Ball the other day and it said 'Outlook not so good.' I said 'Sure, but Microsoft still ships it.' -- Anonymous _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
