On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Michael Thompson wrote: > >>Sounds like you talked yourself out of the appliance :-) Maybe I'm > >>reading it the wrong way. > > <SNIP> > > >There is an argument here for "simple tools that do only one thing, but > >do it well." > > I use an old compaq desktop as my firewall, iirc it was around $40 used, > got a few $15 NICs, "Absolute OpenBSD" book and installed OpenBSD. For > the price, you can't beat it. If you want a multi function router, BSD > supports VPN, DHCP, DNS, Snort, or whatever you might want to run on > such a device. Most importantly, 1 remote hole in 7 years (in the > default install) is a better track record than any other firewall that > I've heard of...
I think this is the direction I'll take. I'll need to change NICs in my box. I currently have far too many rtl8139 from when I was experimenting with cheap hardware. I've since read about the abundent shortcomings of the design. They have no place in a router. I'll STFW but I expect to find that Intel and 3Com NICs are the best still. -- Mike Two hundred years ago, we note mischievously, the average American or European had a standard of living not very much superior to that of the average man in India or China. -- dailyreckoning.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
