Lots of great stuff here Thanks everyone. Why use Windows when you can use Fedora On 04/06/2010 09:18 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:57:14 -0400, > Kwan Lowe<kwan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> I'm putting together an Atom-based system for just this purpose. Power >> consumption is not as low as a $50 router (and probably never could >> be), but I'm adding three NICs (1 dual, 1 single port) so that I can >> create a DMZ and LAN and a separate management port. It should come >> in at just under $250, which is quite a bit less than a dedicated >> router/firewall with similar capability. >> > Note that you can do this with the $50 routers as well. The hardware in > those cheap boxes is pretty amazing. The two Buffalo routers I have > (WHR G54S and WHR G125) have hardware switchs that do vlans. So with proper > configuration you have vlans supported by hardware. (The default is for > the 4 lan ports to be in the same vlan and to bridge that with the wireless > port.) > > Your machine is probably better if you want to run services on the firewall > (such as asterisk or a web server), but for just firewalling and traffic > control, you probably could get by with a $50 router. > -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
