[Gllug] Firewall hardware

Tethys tet at createservices.com
Fri Aug 27 12:52:37 UTC 2004


Garry Heaton writes:

>Any suggestions for a cheap, small, compact box for turning into an OpenBSD
>or IPtables firewall? Are there advantages of having routing and firewalling
>handled separately within a small office network or is it overkill?

I went for a Cubid 2699R case with an EPIA 5000 motherboard and an additional
PCI network card. *Highly* recommended. I'd do routing and firewalling on one
box, and it'd be OpenBSD. A firewall is by definition a router anyway, no
matter how hard your Cisco saleman may try and convince you otherwise...

>If I go for a packet filtering router to put in front of the firewall any
>recommendations?

Why? What are you hoping to achieve with this that you can't do with
pf or iptables on the firewall itself?

Tet
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