It occurred to me yesterday that a good educational experience would be to build and configure an ADSL2+ router / firewall / http caching box for my family.
After a search of the web I found that there are at least two companies selling ADSL modems on PCI cards that are well supported by Linux so there are no troubles in that department but has anyone got suggestions on what other hardware would be best suited to this project? I want to make the power requirements and physical form factor as small as possible while still having a machine that can handle running DansGuardian, Squid (or similar HTTP cache) etcetera. So far a micro ATX board and case, the lowest powered Intel Atom CPU available and a 8GB+ flash drive to boot from looks like my best options but if anyone can point out an obscure option that I haven't thought of that would be well appreciated. -- Ryan McCoskrie North Canterbury, New Zealand sourcelinksnotes.comyr.com
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