<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>If you go that direction, theres any one of the BSD's - Open and Free coming to mind, but Free, because you can use a combination of pf, ipfw, and ipf if need be to implement all kinds of wacky stuff *laugh*</div><div><br></div><div>-Trish</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Dec 23, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Dan Colish wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Rather than run pfsense i'd recommend just straight openbsd. It will do all the same stuff, since pf is from the openbsd project, but without a web gui. I find it easier to configure and control. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Max Gribov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:max@neuropunks.org">max@neuropunks.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">Jonathan Vanasco wrote:<br> > I haven't touched any of this stuff in a long time - hoping someone<br> ><br> </div>pfsense is very cool, takes about 30 mins to setup, has ability to<br> ha-cluster, and will go on pretty much any hardware<br> you can get some pci wireless card for the wireless part, although<br> personally i never tried to make a wifi router out of freebsd..<br> <br> cisco 800's are cool too.<br> one cool thing about 800's is that you can use older ram (non-ddr) in them<br> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833120314" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833120314</a><br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> > can offer advice/suggestions.<br> ><br> > So my options right now are:<br> > - dd-wrt or similar<br> > - soekris / alix<br> ><br> > But I haven't checked on those projects in forever. Are they still<br> > viable ? Are the setup times still 1day+ ?<br> ><br> > Thanks!<br> > _______________________________________________<br> > talk mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br> ><br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> talk mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk" target="_blank">http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>talk mailing list<br><a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br>http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>