On 04/08/2010 10:21 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: > 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? > > Right now I am just using a linksys BEFSR 41 as a access point and not router. It has built in firewall that I can see. I am going to set up a small broadcast web based tv show on my favorite topic. "Captain Cannabis News Hour" What I am going to do is set up a old athlon xp 1500 and probably use BSD as the OS I have not decided on an actual firewall package and still looking for the best route. Cost is nil considering I have enough parts to build several computers. Hardwire everything for speed. I need to trap IP's as they connect to see how many are actually tuning in. I used Bitdefender on my old Win 7 computer and I liked the interface on firewall. Does Fedora have a good GUI driven firewall package. I found Bitdefender AV for unix type machines but no firewall package for Fedora I am really new to Fedora. The last os that I had that resembled linux was the Amiga 3.1 system That was back in 94 -95 one thing for sure is that OS just rocked for functionality I really miss it Now I see Amiga really did not die just got Realllllly expensive I use now a Phenom 2 945 overclocked to 3.7 and wow, it's fast Temp is hovering at 35C so handling it very well Of course the cover is not on the computer and I have a big fan blowing right on it Better than spending 500 bucks on a Water cooled unit That's where I am at Michael Miles -- 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
