recommend hardware firewall

[Michael Miles]

On 04/08/2010 10:21 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Kwan Lowe wrote:
>    
>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Bruno Wolff III<bruno at wolff.to>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> 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.)
>>>        
>> 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.
>>
>>      
> If you can do that with new hardware I'd love to know what you're using. I am
> planning just that, and grabbed an SSD just to reduce power/noise, but haven't
> bought the rest of it. What hardware are you using?
>
>    
Right now I am just using a linksys BEFSR 41 as a access point and not 
router.
It has built in firewall that I can see.
I am going to set up a small broadcast web based tv show on my favorite 
topic.
"Captain Cannabis News Hour"

What I am going to do is set up a old athlon xp 1500 and probably use 
BSD as the OS

I have not decided on an actual firewall package and still looking for 
the best route.
Cost is nil considering I have enough parts to build several computers.

Hardwire everything for speed.

I need to trap IP's as they connect to see how many are actually tuning in.

I used Bitdefender on my old Win 7 computer and I liked the interface on 
firewall.

Does Fedora have a good GUI driven firewall package.
I found Bitdefender AV for unix type machines but no firewall package 
for Fedora

I am really new to Fedora.
The last os that I had that resembled linux was the Amiga 3.1 system

That was back in 94 -95


one thing for sure is that OS just rocked for functionality

I really miss it
Now I see Amiga really did not die just got Realllllly expensive


I use now a Phenom 2 945 overclocked to 3.7 and wow, it's fast
Temp is hovering at 35C so handling it very well
Of course the cover is not on the computer and I have a big fan blowing 
right on it

Better than spending 500 bucks on a Water cooled unit

That's where I am at

Michael Miles