On 15/01/07, Jeff Green wrote: > I bought it all here: > http://www.pcengines.ch/order1.php?c=4 > > The ordering process is a bit weird but after payment, they sent me a > UPS confirmation shipment code within the hour. > > I will be using PfSense as the o/s + firewall (BSD based) with a nice > shell access and web based front end. I love this distro as I have many > persistant VPN tunnels going and the integration with snort, pfBlocker, > squid, DNS, DHCP etc just just superb. I tried so many other firewalls > out there... some of which I ran in my ehacking lab. This one really > stands out. It's free with optional annual support for tech assistance) > Software updates are free. The installation which installs the o/s > and firewall packages that gets you to a point where you can connect a > puter to config over a web browser takes all but 10 minutes from start > to finish. Any opinions on IPCop? I've dealt with that one, otherwise rolled my own on an X86 box from Debian, or ran OpenWRT or CeroWRT... > One cool thing to point out that the PfSense folks do have ready made > hardware packages pre-installed with their software. With the parts I > mention below, it is smaller and more powerful, faster and higher > capacity storage (SSD) vs their $800 "equivalent". I opted for the 16GB > SSD as I run squid transparently to flush out all the ads and speed up > content. My parts below added up to $232. I'm currently running > this on a micro-ATX system with 2GB ram where my memory utilization of > about 55% due to 800,000 table size for ip blocking via pbBlocker - > which is why I chose the 4GB version below. > > My next fave firewall software / OS = http://www.zeroshell.org/ which is > a little more primitive, (linux based i think) but extremely > configurable. > > Jeff Green <snippidy-doo-dah... no need to cargo-cult nearly 1000 lines of digest...> slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________