[TriLUG] Best appliance for Linux firewall?

[Ronald Kelley]

For those of you who are looking for a true DIY project, take a look at the WatchGuard Firebox units on eBay.  Pick up a X550e or X750e then install pfSense on a CF card.  Those units have multiple GigE connections and make a good home firewall unit for cheap.

Here is a good Wiki article on getting pfSense running on the Firebox units:  http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/PfSense_on_Watchguard_Firebox

These units can be easily had for $40-100 on eBay.


-Ron



On Aug 11, 2013, at 9:17 AM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:

> 
> On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> After nearly 10 years of near constant 24x7 operation my old Net-4501 is
>> still working though the limited ram is showing up with the latest m0n0wall
>> builds.  I'm going to upgrade to a 5501 because I am losing bandwidth, none
>> that I need at home but it bothers me I don't have hardware to fully
>> utilize what I am paying for (I live alone, generally only have one device
>> running at a time and never have issues streaming HD content from Netflix,
>> etc). 
> 
> Could you go into a little more detail about the Net4501's limitations? That is to say, what kind of traffic taxes it / what m0n0wall things can't you do with the amount of RAM the 4501 has / how are you losing bandwidth? Have you kill-a-watt'd it at any point?
> 
> I would be fascinated to hear from a long-time Soekris user...
> 
> --bak
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