[dundee] Hardware for a firewall/content filter

[Simon Wells]

Hi Colin,

You could try an ALIX embedded board:
http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=178

Haven't tried them myself but they look to hit the power-consumption/price/physical size/functionality sweet spot. A low power pf-sense or m0n0wall system from around £130. 

Alternatively try a RouterBOARD: 
http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=166&pp=147,166

Simon


On 9 May 2011, at 13:48, Colin Brough wrote:

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Colin
> 
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> Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk
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