On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:27:46PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:27:46 +1000
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions
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On Tuesday 11 July 2006 11:01, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:16AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote:
>The biggest problem I have come across looking at these is finding
>something with 3 NICs without spending a fortune on a multiple interface
>card from Intel.
The soekris and pc-engines wrap both have 3 NICs, and are available
from Yawarra.
Besides some minor quirks, Linux works well on the Yawarra WRAP and net4801
(which is what I think you mean by "soekris", which is just a case style).
Soekris (US) make the net4801, and PC-Engines (Switzerland) make
the WRAP. Both companies make a range of boards.
Yawarra distributes both in Aus with a variety of cases available, and
sells wireless cards which work well with them. Paul is also a nice
guy. :-)
I run OpenBSD quite happily from CF on one of each, including
firewalling with ipsec and ipv6. If all you're doing is a firewall,
you really don't need much CPU.
If you want 4 NICs, I believe Commell (Taiwan?) make some stuff, but I
believe it's more expensive.
A good alternative is pfSense [http://www.pfsense.com/], which is
FreeBSD-based.
At home, I have HyperWRT running on a Linksys WRT-54GS v1.1. It runs like a
champ.
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Christopher Vance
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