On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 03:11:19PM +0100, Philip wrote:
> It's about power consumption and availability.

Yep.  Security regularly winds up being a trade off.

> The soekris consumes only 5W or something and will run off of an old car 
> battery for a day or more.  There's no point in having a security box 
> that's running but the web/email server is out.

Uhh huh.  And how's your data service doing in this disaster scenario?

Fine.  Go back to NetBSD.  Just run Apache and Postfix chrooted and call
it a day.  Of if you're feeling particularly vigorous, you can probably
tickle pfSense into doing what you want pretty easily.

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