On 02/28/11 19:26, Timothy Legge wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I
> was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first
> time machine.
>
> Below is a little about my situation.
>
> I plan to install the firewall physically between my router (Apple Time
> Capsule) and my ADSL 2+ Modem so it can filter all traffic sent and received
> to the Internet.
ANYTHING.
> As I understand it, I will be running pf to filter the traffic on each of
> the NIC's installed, and I would like to install an IDS.
> Besides this, Ill only really need to run what ever is nesacery to allow a
> secure connection to be established to that machine so I can manage it from
> within my network. (Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong, I'm still learning!)
>
> I look forward to reading your advice, and I'm happy to provide any
> aditional information.
>
> Tim
Seriously, you can not buy too little hw in a "standard" platform for
your needs as you describe them. You would have trouble finding too
little HW sitting on the curb on trash day.
Go grab yourself an old PII or P3 (Celeron will save you a couple
Watts), 64M RAM, a couple PCI NICs, an old HD, and do it.
DO NOT jump on the
Alix/Soekris/Other-wacko-low-power-low-performing-specialty hardware
train until you know what you are doing. It is good to see that people
aren't automatically recommending Soekris for everything ("the answer is
Soekris. What's your question?") so much anymore... unfortunately, now
it's Alix. Stick to standard computers until you are really comfortable
with OpenBSD (or ANY OS you are planning on using).
Nick.
