Will H. Backman wrote:
I assume something like a $40 linksys.
Might I suggest that if you have budget for an extra computer or an
older one laying around (not *too* old if you want decent outgoing
internet performance) pop some NICs into it and use pfSense (
www.pfsense.com ) to make it a firewall.
It uses the same firewall as OpenBSD (pf) and has a nice webGUI to make
managing the firewall easy. It does everything I've ever needed it to do
and more, including failover (to improve availability) and other
services that you have to pay extra for on a "linksys box"-type solution
(IPSec VPN). It also has all the standard things too (DHCP, DNS
forwarder, etc).
The only way I could see it improving would be if it switched to OpenBSD
as a base system. (It currently uses FreeBSD)
