I must admit that's the approach I've taken - cost me about £40 for a
low profile HP low profile desktop with 512MB RAM and a built-in NIC
(even shelled out a fiver for a separate graphics card...) - stuck in an
extra PCI NIC from my drawer of bits, installed IPFire and that was it.
I could even add a wireless NIC for a blue interface if I wanted. OK, it
has a fan in it, but it's not noisy.
Ian
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On 11/12/14 10:13, Ally Biggs wrote:
Or acquire a older Pentium 3 / 4 computer from somewhere put two
network cards in it install Debian configure iptables job done.
Why the need to spend lots of money on this?
> From: gor...@gscott.co.uk
> To: li...@fractal.me.uk
> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:40:15 +0000
> CC: hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Firewall hardware
>
> On Wed, 2014-12-10 at 23:07 +0000, Leo wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that. Although part of me is a little unsure about
going for
> > a non-arm or x86 based setup. So now I'm wondering if buying a cheap
> > router and flashing it with openwrt is the way to go...
>
> I'm sceptical that you'll find many firewalls that are not either x86 or
> ARM. They're both pretty much ubiquitous now. Skimming through the
> OpenWRT hardware list, it looks like there are a few MIPS and PowerPC
> based units out there.
>
> The ARM architectures are, of course, licensed intellectual property, so
> many chips that don't have the word ARM in the name are still an ARM
> inside.
>
> Whatever platform, there's a distinct advantage in having the software
> on a physically write-protected memory medium. My guess is that most of
> the hardware listed on OpenWRT is just that.
>
> My personal thought for looking to a micro-PC type device were that I
> then have full control of the software and don't again get bitten by
> buying a new, fairly expensive, router that, despite what it says on the
> box and website, appears not properly to support IPv6. Sole reason for
> purchase :-(
>
> Gordon.
>
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