Matthew Dillon wrote:
When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC, preferably booted off a flash drive instead of a hard drive.-Matt
Something like pcengines.ch or soekris.com. You can build a fanless wireless router for under 150 EUR that runs *BSD and that doesn't take much power (max 12W). Those boxes are quite powerful. 500 MHz Geode, 128 MB main memory. You could also plug a hard disk via USB...
Regards, Michael
