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Re: halted firewalls



Hi,

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:07:51AM +0100, Ludo wrote:
> As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway
> in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have
> to boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's mostly
> to avoid running the gateway, because of the added noise, etc.

Maybe it would be good to use hardware that does not consume too much
power and is cooled passively, including the processor (but not the
power supply unit, i guess). Some Mini-ITX like the EPIA mainboard
series from VIA or similar could do this job.

Regards,
Lothar



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