[nycbug-talk] building home firewalls out of soekris boxen

Charles Sprickman spork at bway.net
Mon Feb 4 17:06:03 EST 2008


On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jerry B. Altzman wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> Anyone local here spend much time *still* with Soekris boxes?

Never played with them, but I have a PCEngines Alix box on the way to 
setup with pfsense for a client:

http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=60&products_id=492

It seemed like a much better value than Soekris.

Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Thanks,

Charles

> I'm thinking of building a new firewall or two for the home, I'd like to 
> try something OTHER than OpenWRT (since I already have a nice wireless 
> gateway, thankyouverymuch...) and the little boxes just ... appeal to 
> me.
>
> Comments? Praises? Brickbats?
>
> Either post here, or send to me & I'll summarize back.
>
> Thanks!
>
> //jbaltz
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