Thanks Scott, and, yeah, I've looked into the Soekris products.
They seem expensive, though, as I would need some additional Soekris components
for the purpose.
At the moment, Asus' new Eee PC 701 for the firewall seems like a good buy.
This is for my home office, so the cheaper the better.
Best,
Soren
Scott Sipe wrote:
On Sep 15, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Soren wrote:
What I am seriously considering switching to, is:
1. A very small laptop solution for the firewall, e.g. one of the new
Atom based laptops, with USB adaptors as second and third NICs.
AMIbios is preferred.
If you're not wanting an off the shelf router/WAP/etc, you could check
out Soekris: http://www.soekris.com/
Fairly cheap, no moving parts!
They do take a bit of work to get off the ground, but I'm using a couple
at work to run an IPSEC connection between a main office and a
warehouse, etc. You pretty mcuh ave to run Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD/etc
Scott
