Going small

From: John Murphy (jfm_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 04/14/04

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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:06:54 +0100

    Hope everyone had a nice easter.

    I've decided to stop messing about with noisy old 486s for the gateway/
    firewall. The one I've been configuring runs just fine but it has a
    large hot heatsink cooling some power transistor/regulator devices and
    I just don't trust it for 24/7 use in a cupboard...

    I'm going to get a Soekris Net4801 and fit a 30G HD from a broken laptop
    I was given. Just undecided whether to get it from the USA or Belgium
    (I'm in the UK); the 21%VAT against the better exchange rate etc.

    (Update: they were out of stock at the manufacturers so I've ordered one
    from http://soekris.kd85.com with case and 2.5" hard drive mounting kit.
    Got my name on the last one! I could have it before the weekend.)

    I don't know much about them at this stage, except they run FreeBSD of
    course and they're probably ten times as efficient as the thing I was
    going to use. http://www.soekris.com/

    I'll write my findings here if no-one strongly objects.

    Some good pages I've found so far:
    http://www.xinu.nl/unix/soekris/net4801/
    http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/
    http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_10524,00.html

    I'll be going against the recommendation to use a physically separate
    device for the firewall on the grounds that I can enable some server
    side filtering at the ISP and I can't afford two soekrises just now.
    So it will run ipf, ipnat, ipmon, ftpd, ntp, bind (caching only at
    first), sendmail and boa (web server). 

    -- 
John.
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