[TriLUG] Best appliance for Linux firewall?

[Brian Henning]

I love it when a thread I start goes for a nice long run!

Anyway, I've decided to try out a Mirabox + a big fat external USB 3 hard
drive.  I'm also going to see how it performs running ZoneMinder motion
detection on three IP cameras.  I'll try to remember to post some stats
after it's been up a while.

~Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
Of Sean Alexandre
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 5:29 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Best appliance for Linux firewall?

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 10:36:03PM -0400, Magnus wrote:
> Raspberry Pi with 1 on-board NIC, use a managed switch, and use 802.1q
VLAN
> tagging will do it. USB WiFi if you need that. Talk about low power and
zero
> noise! And it runs Debian. I'm half tempted to shut my Raspberry Pi down
and
> plug it into the Kill-A-Watt to show what a low amount of current it
draws.

Yes, the the Raspberry Pi looks pretty awesome and I've wanted to try one
out.
What's holding me back right now is it requires binary blobs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#Driver_API

I expect there will be (or are already?) single board computers that run
100% free
software (drivers, boot loader, etc.)

My interest comes from a couple projects I've been following, that are
trying
to build routers / home servers that are 100% free, and based on Debian:

FreedomBox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedombox

Torrouter
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/Torouter

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