Re: Tiny firewall options

* Shane R. Spencer <shane@tdxnet.com> [2006-01-04 21:55 +0100]:
> 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.

The DMZ is what I'm after. I'd like to have a WAN, LAN, DMZ, and
wireless wireless setup. In June we'll another member joins the family,
so I want to have everything running smoothly on good hardware before
that happens (I have a feeling I won't have time for much
troubleshooting afterwords ;).

> 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

May have to check out the 400mw option: The houses here are build with
~1 foot thick concrete block *internal* walls. Sheesh.

> 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.

Hrm. May have to try out a debian console install again. I've tried
shorewall before, but was in a hurry and ended up going with OpenBSD.
Thanks for the tip!

Regards,

-- 
dave [ please don't CC me ]
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