[dundee] Hardware for a firewall/content filter

[Colin Brough]

Folks

Just looking for pointers for some cheap hardware on which to run a
firewall and content filter - and possibly a low-traffic mail server.

Requirements:

  - 2 LAN sockets

  - able to run (or already installed with) a Linux distro - perhaps
    ipcop, or perhaps a general distro... Probably dansguardian for
    content filtering.

  - quiet, low power, low cost! (24/7 in my study)

  - the mail-server wish thing is to run something like mailman for a
    couple of low-traffic, sub-100 subsriber mailing lists I manage.

Am aware of mini-itx.com; they have stuff that would do the job, but
not sure whether £150-£200 is really the price range I need to be
thinking of... Want cheaper!!

I have a couple of NAS boxes (a Buffalo and a Synology) which can be
made to run Linux, but neither of them have 2 LAN ports.

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Cheers

Colin

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk