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Re: halted firewalls



hi!

what about a linksys wrt54gl? ~ 60€. install openwrt, read the docs (most is 
in the wiki) and off you go .. with ~ 9W power consumption.

n.

> 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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