Jimmy Lim wrote:
In my opinion proprietary hardware will remain proprietary and you can't do anything about it, you're stuck on it, and whenever there's a bug or exploit on it, you look like a sitting duck waiting to happen something.
Yes we need a pretty handy and easy to maintain appliance, so what I did is to purchase an IWill XP4 SFF (a reasonable size to occupy space) and put my live cd distribution as my firewall/VPN/NAT with sshd for me to tweak/change configuration. And whenever there's an update, recompile the whole thing then burn again on a new cd.
Now I have my own firewall appliance.
how about downloading the GPL-ed source of a Linksys router then implement it on your appliance/system? different on the outside but same on the inside. =)
http://www.linksys.com/support/gpl.asp
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