Re: Tiny firewall options

I use pc engines equipment.. the 2 lan + 2 mini pci does a fine job..
Most advanced users may want the three lan in order to host a DMZ.

There are also inexpensive prism2 200mw cards (hostap) and
semi-inexpensive 400mw atheros (madwifi) based cards that many firewall
packages grok.

http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=35_51&products_id=126

http://www.wisp-router.com/product_info.php?cPath=35_51&products_id=399

I use both with pc engines wraps and the 200mw card in long range
laptops. I use my rootfs setup and not really anything pre-setup,
however m0n0w4ll seems to come highly recommended. They are very good
for the price. For instance.

Running a debian setup with 64 megs of ram and setup to 266mhz I was
able to firewall 30 and act as a masq for 30 machines as well as
transcode 4 ulaw voice channels to GSM with some jitter buffer calcs
thrown in as well. Wireless and Wired users. It had no problems.

On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 10:43 -0900, Damien Hull wrote:
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> I did some searching a while back. The only thing's I know about are the
> PC Engines WRAP and http://www.soekris.com/. Their low end boards are
> about the same price.
>
> David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
> > I'm currently in the market for a replacement firewall, and have gone
> > through three commercial products with zero luck. The firewall will
> > replace my Cyrix P233 equivalent 64MB RAM mid-tower system with no hard
> > drive running m0n0wall.
> >
> > After a bit of research I've come up with the following list (from
> > <http://www.pcengines.ch/order1.php?c=4>):
> >
> > PC Engines WRAP.1E-2 (3 LAN / 1 miniPCI / 128 MB DRAM)
> > Enclosure for WRAP.1-2 (3 LAN, red)
> > AC adapter 18V 0.8A euro plug
> > CompactFlash card 256MB
> >
> > Total price is $175.50. That is the cheapest decent tiny firewall setup
> > I've been able to find. It's compatible with m0n0wall, as well as a
> > bunch of others, and would be capable of minipci wireless should I so
> > desire.
> >
> > So, my question: Has anyone seen anything out there that would be
> > cheaper with equivalent capabilities (2 LAN instead of 3 is acceptable,
> > as is 2 LAN plus built-in wireless instead of minipci slot)? If so,
> > could you shoot me a link (off-list if this is too off-topical)? Or, if
> > I'm way off base and need to be looking in other directions, let me
> > know.
> >
> > Regards,
>
>
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