Johan Beisser skrev 2012-12-30 20:49: > On Dec 30, 2012, at 8:31, pe...@bsdly.net (Peter N. M. Hansteen) wrote: > >> A case in point: one of the firewalls I maintain for old friends is a >> Pentium III box with a whopping 512 MB of RAM, 8GB hard drive, you get >> the idea. As in, seriously, you'll get better hardware for free or the >> price of a bus ticket. > 486DX2, 64mb of ram, 1gb of disk. > > It's my firewall at home. Has been reliably pushing packets since 2000. > I wouldn't say that better hardware thou, the pi have it's advantages over many dated hardware, specially in power consumption. When it comes to nice embedded hardware development platforms few is as easy and cheep to get your hands on.
The down side with pie as firewalls is only one network card. I say it easy to work with compared to many alternatives.
