Hi everyone,
This is my first post, so please be gentle...
I've been thinking about getting broadband at home to stave off the eventual
fights over the modem line and need to know if anyone makes a box that can
do this cheaply...
1) DHCP Server
2) NAT/Firewall (configurable, of course, in case I need to poke holes in it
to get Quake II/III to work)
3) Proxy server (HTTP, FTP, Socks, etc)
4) Async and Broadband support (in case I have to wait for the *&^*^*&
"truck roll")
5) Low power consumption (<50W) so I can leave it up all the time.
6) HPNA 1.0/2.0/Ethernet network support on one interface (use one or the
other, but not both -- linksys has an Ethernet/HPNA card that does this).
7) 10/100 Ethernet support on second interface.
www.rebel.com has something that would do everything I want but the HPNA
support, but at a $1k Pricepoint. I _could_ just use an old P-133 I have for
this task, but running a >200W power supply all the time is such a waste.
(And my power bill is high enough with 7 people in the house, thank you!)
If not, I'll have to make one and will then need to know if anyone has ideas
about where I can get _REALLY_ wimpy AT/ATX power supplies to drop the power
consumption of the P-133 box. (which will wind up booting off a lowly 420MB
IDE drive.)
Ideas?
brian
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