Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Remember that there are also power costs. The $50 routers don't draw as much >> power as an old repurposed general purpose machine is going to. They also >> come with wireless support. >> >> Depending on what you are going to do with the firewall, it might also be >> cheaper to buy just one network card and an unmanaged switch. (8 port switches >> were going for about $20 a few years ago.) > > I'm putting together an Atom-based system for just this purpose. Power > consumption is not as low as a $50 router (and probably never could > be), but I'm adding three NICs (1 dual, 1 single port) so that I can > create a DMZ and LAN and a separate management port. It should come > in at just under $250, which is quite a bit less than a dedicated > router/firewall with similar capability. > If you can do that with new hardware I'd love to know what you're using. I am planning just that, and grabbed an SSD just to reduce power/noise, but haven't bought the rest of it. What hardware are you using? -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
