The lovable scamp Ted Unangst posted about a box with dual broadcoms, Atom CPU, DDR3 RAM, etc for $129 on his blog:
http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/new-home-router -Chester "Enjoy those tacos now, for in a thousand years they will be illegal! Ha ha ha ha-I think we all know why." - Benjamin Franklin On 12/3/2014 at 11:09 AM, "Gene" <gh5...@gmail.com> wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:49 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> This is very interesting - I've been looking at various small >boxes >> like this to use as a home firewall. >> The only problem is that not many of them have 2 NICs, and the >ones >> that do are very expensive (higher end Zotac) >> >> Does anyone know of a similar device with 2 NICs that might be >> suitable as a home firewall? >> > >Look into the PC Engines ALIX and APU system boards. You can get >kits for >under $200, or sometimes for less on eBay. > >http://www.pcengines.ch > >Great hardware. I have a couple of the ALIX boards. The APU >series has >gigabit NICs and a lot more horse power. If you search the >mailing list >you'll see several mentions for it. > > >> What about one of the Open Firmware firewalls like ASUS? Is >there an >> OpenBSD load for those? Instead of Tomato or the likes ... >> > >-Gene >(p.s. I'm bad at mailing lists and didn't reply all last time, I >apologise >for emailing you twice, Alan).
