DNS, dhcp, firewall on a stick, vpn terminator. Sure, it would be more easy if it had 2 interfaces but with VLAN you can do a lot of cool stuff with rbp
// Johan On Dec 30, 2012 11:12 PM, "mxb" <m...@alumni.chalmers.se> wrote: > Any practical usage for this kind of hardware? > I don't see it. Maybe someone can explain it to me? > > Sure, probably fun to port an OS other than GNU/Linux, > but what kind of duties OpenBSD ev. will do on it? > > //mxb > > On 30 dec 2012, at 23:00, Anders Arnholm <and...@arnholm.se> wrote: > > > 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.
