Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:38:01 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: John Telford <j.telford@sympatico.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? Message-ID: <20010319233801.A95896@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <000501c0b0ff$090addb0$4030e540@johnny2k>; from j.telford@sympatico.ca on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:31:37AM -0500 References: <000501c0b0ff$090addb0$4030e540@johnny2k>
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If you want a box to push packets, go to a flea market or your favorite source for old hardware, and buy an old Dell Dimension P100. If you like, you can substitute the words "Dell Dimension P100" with the name of your (boss's) choice. I won't buy a Celeron on principle. A PIII is overkill extraordinaire if you're just jockeying packets. Get something in the 100-200 MHz range, which should go for less than $200 today. Naturally you will want PCI slots, since all the good NICs are PCI cards. I've got a diskless, videoless Dimension XPS P90c that runs PicoBSD. It does NAT, port forwarding, and packet filtering. I couldn't be happier. Cheap, quiet, easy. And I don't feel like I'm wasting a good processor, since I can't think of a better use for a 90 MHz Pentium. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:31:37AM -0500, John Telford wrote: > If the boss said "stop using those old cast offs for FreeBSD > firewalls/routers and buy a name brand" > What's out there right now that would be worth looking at and avoiding. > Dell, IBM, Compaq ? Processor Celeron, PIII, AMD ? > Thanks in advance, John. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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