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Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway


From: Thomas Donnelly <TDonnelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:33:14 -0600

Michael Neumann wrote:
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

http://www.logicsupply.com/ has been my personal favorite. They have fanless ones that run from a 800mhz via, up to a multple GHz core 2 mobile. Flash drives from 256mb to 8 gb. Pretty nice too.


-=Tom



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