I built my own firewall/router box using a CL6000 mini-itx board. This is one of VIA's new boards and comes with two onboard NICs. It is also a fanless board, so it's very quiet. I put it in a very small mini-itx case. What I ended up with was a machine not much bigger than an appliance running linux. It is quiet, uses a 60W DC power supply, is about the size of a closed laptop and runs a full blown OS. The only downside is that the NICs don't use a driver that's included with the kernel. VIA supplies the source and some scripts that make it real easy to create the needed modules. I have been very pleased with this set up.
Ken On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 22:49, John Franklin wrote: <SNIP> > > The advantages: > One electrical outlet instead of three (switch, wireless AP, *nix box > Lower power draw > Less real estate consumption > Quieter > Easier to set up VPN tunnels > > Downsides: > Interfaces are often lacking. > Must port forward any inbound port you want to serve > Don't have complete control of the box > The more functionality they pack in, the higher the chance they > botched something. > <SNIP AGAIN> -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."--Benjamin Franklin " 'Necessity' is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."--William Pitt
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