Sorry for speaking out of turn and adding a bit of noise. A non-techie mind like mine would like to think, "why not have a router which can work both as a home router and work router?"
We have been using Mikrotik routerboards since 7 years and have been very happy with those. Wouldn't it be good to take a look at similar boards with multiple NICs? Costing ranges from 100 to 200 $ Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Gene Sent: Wednesday 3 December 2014 23:39 To: Alan McKay Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: OpenBSD embedded? (was: OpenBSD 5.6-current on ASUS Chromebox) On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay <[email protected]> wrote: > This is very interesting - I've been looking at various small boxes > like this to use as a home firewall. > The only problem is that not many of them have 2 NICs, and the ones > that do are very expensive (higher end Zotac) > > Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be > suitable as a home firewall? > Look into the PC Engines ALIX and APU system boards. You can get kits for under $200, or sometimes for less on eBay. http://www.pcengines.ch Great hardware. I have a couple of the ALIX boards. The APU series has gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the mailing list you'll see several mentions for it. > What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is there an > OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... > -Gene (p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists and didn't reply all last time, I apologise for emailing you twice, Alan).
