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  1. Re:LRP "sold out" ? by young-earth · · Score: 1 · on Captain Crunch's New Boxes, Part II

    Actually Gnat is FreeBSD based, at the time they took a kernel I'm not even sure OpenBSD had started. And FreeBSD was at the time heavily X86 focused IIRC.

    If you want a no-moving-parts OpenBSD based firewall, you can build one up using embedded OpenBSD, aka emBSD, see their site for details. They use the Soekris single-board computer with Flash IDE to get a nice little firewall with pf and OpenBSD.

  2. Soekris emBSD board... by uberkludge · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Digital-Logic Microspace Mini-PCs

    Yeah, it won't play UT, but I'd much rather have this, especially with some 802.11 luvin and a crypto card... uberkludge.

  3. Re:firewall replacement by Raptor+CK · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Linux Firmware For Some 802.11b Access Points

    How about this?

    Two 10/100 ports, 1 serial port, one Mini-PCI slot, two PCMCIA/CardBus slots.
    Granted, it's not out just yet, but you could make it handle wireless, inbound traffic, and two internal segments fairly easily.

    The only problem is the dependence on CF. Logging isn't generally a good idea to media that can't handle excessive writes. While a Microdrive would fare better, it would also cost much more.

  4. Re:Old PC by fizbin · · Score: 1 · on Choosing a Router/Firewall for the Home LAN

    Well, it's just above your stated price range, but the net4501 from Soekris Engineering might also be worth considering (http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm) - it's $230 plus whatever you want to pay for what you put in the CompactFlash slot. It's based around an AMD 486 clone, comes with 64 MB SDRAM and three ethernet ports, and has stated power consumption of 10 Watts. They did begin shipping earlier this year, but supplies are a bit low at the moment - the websites says they were expecting another production run at the end of September.

    I found this device, by the way, by searching the search engine at LinuxDevices.com for "firewall".

  5. Roll your own Firewall for less than $300 by emc · · Score: 1 · on Choosing a Router/Firewall for the Home LAN
    Soekris Engineering and Embedded BSD

    It's a small box, 64 meg 'o ram, Compact Flash slot, MiniPCI / Normal PCI slots, as well as 3 ethernet interfaces.

  6. Roll your own embedded BSD..... by jsimon12 · · Score: 2, Informative · on BSD in Embedded Systems

    http://www.embsd.org/
    http://www.soekris.com/

  7. Check the Soekris Net4501 out by Therin · · Score: 1 · on Little Linux Systems For Whatever Ails Ya
    This cute little number has a 486-133 class CPU, three Ethernet ports (10/100), up to 64MB SDRAM and a slot for a CF card that looks like an IDE disk.

    It's being used in the emBSD (aka embedded OpenBSD) project as a great firewall box.

  8. Try the net4501 by leighklotz · · Score: 1 · on Little Linux Systems For Whatever Ails Ya

    Try the net4501, $250 or so, three ethernet ports, compact flash, etc.

    http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm