Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

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