recommend hardware firewall

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 19:45:08 -0700,
  Michael Miles <mmamiga6 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do plan on an upgrade to a better router
> 
> So if I wanted to create a separate machine and put 3 or 4 good lan 
> adapters on a amd xp 1500
> install fedora 12 and use it as a firewall only, would probably be a 
> good alternative to a 100 dollar router

Remember that there are also power costs. The $50 routers don't draw as much
power as an old repurposed general purpose machine is going to. They also
come with wireless support.

Depending on what you are going to do with the firewall, it might also be
cheaper to buy just one network card and an unmanaged switch. (8 port switches
were going for about $20 a few years ago.)