[dundee] Hardware for a firewall/content filter

[Robert Ladyman]

You can run IPCOP on an old 486, so see what you have lying around

> 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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