Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Timothy Legge
Hi list! I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first time machine. Below is a little about my situation. I plan to install the firewall physically between my router (Apple Time Capsule) and m

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 1 March 2011 11:26, Timothy Legge wrote: > I plan to install the firewall physically between my router (Apple Time > Capsule) and my ADSL 2+ Modem so it can filter all traffic sent and received > to the Internet. I use an ALIX 2d13 w/ OpenBSD 4.7 as a firewall/router between ADSL2+, a wired ne

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Bryan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 18:26, Timothy Legge wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I > was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first > time machine. > > Below is a little about my situation. > > I plan to install

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Nick Holland
On 02/28/11 19:26, Timothy Legge wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I > was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first > time machine. > > Below is a little about my situation. > > I plan to install the firewa

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 28/02/11 21:26, Timothy Legge wrote: > Hi list! > > I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I > was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first > time machine. > > Below is a little about my situation. > > I plan to install the firewa

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-02-28 Thread Joshua M. Clulow
On 1 March 2011 14:11, Nick Holland wrote: > Go grab yourself an old PII or P3 (Celeron will save you a couple > Watts), 64M RAM, a couple PCI NICs, an old HD, and do it. > > DO NOT jump on the > Alix/Soekris/Other-wacko-low-power-low-performing-specialty hardware > train until you know what you a

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread STeve Andre'
On 02/28/11 22:11, Nick Holland wrote: On 02/28/11 19:26, Timothy Legge wrote: Hi list! I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first time machine. Below is a little about my situation. I pl

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread SJP Lists
On 1 March 2011 14:11, Nick Holland wrote: > DO NOT jump on the > Alix/Soekris/Other-wacko-low-power-low-performing-specialty hardware > train until you know what you are doing. It is good to see that people > aren't automatically recommending Soekris for everything ("the answer is > Soekris. W

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
Nick Holland wrote: DO NOT jump on the Alix/Soekris/Other-wacko-low-power-low-performing-specialty hardware train until you know what you are doing. It is good to see that people aren't automatically recommending Soekris for everything ("the answer is Soekris. What's your question?") so much an

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Grigoni
On 1 Mar 2011 at 21:19, SJP Lists wrote: > With my link at about 12Mbit/S worth of web traffic and altq keeping > my VoIP calls nice and clean, my Soekris 5501 with OpenBSD 4.6 hovers > around 85% idle. Would you please describe what you do for inbound traffic shaping / rate limiting; do you rou

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Christiano F. Haesbaert
You can always get a really old computer, they don't consume that much. I have an ultra5 that eats about 30W-35W, it's not exactly low power but it does the trick.

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Holger Glaess
> Hi list! > > I'm looking to setup my first Open BSD firewall in the near future, and I > was hoping to get a little feedback from you about ideal specs for a first > time machine. > > Below is a little about my situation. > > I plan to install the firewall physically between my router (Apple Time

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread SJP Lists
Okay, someone asked me for this a while back and I promised them I'd get back to them once I'd updated to 4.8. Still haven't updated, so apologies for that. This may well be an abomination to the pf Gods, but it works for me. On 2 March 2011 00:37, Michael Grigoni wrote: > On 1 Mar 2011 at 21:1

Re: Specs for a firewall.

2011-03-01 Thread Ingo Schwarze
STeve Andre' wrote on Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:05:50AM -0500: > I don't think I have any Compudyne 486's left, but if I find one > I'll try it with that, too. I'd bet it could deal with a 10Mb link > just fine, too. Actually, i ran our main firewall (three-leg intranet/Internet/DMZ) with NAT for