[ale] OT: Firewall purchase

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Jul 5 11:45:19 EDT 2004


On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 18:54, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> http://www.pimfg.com sells a nice device that looks good.  Look under firewalls.

Well, for $58 I can justify getting one just to test! Thanks Chris.


> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 04:15:18PM -0400, David Hamm wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the links and suggestions but this firewall is for a client and 
> > building a custom firewall will not be price competitive;  Especially if you 
> > consider the ease of use available for $100 from Netgear and D-Link.
> >    
> > 
> > 
> > On Sunday 04 July 2004 03:40 pm, Dow Hurst wrote:
> > > David Hamm wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm looking for a firewall that supports IPSEC for VPN and OSPF.
> > > > Netgear has
> > > > stuff I found attractive but with no OSPF support. Moving parts (ie
> > > > fans and
> > > > disks ), and user licensing are out. Anyone have any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > > _______________________________________________
> > > > Ale mailing list
> > > > Ale at ale.org
> > > > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> > >
> > > Look at building it yourself using Slackware, Bob Toxen's second edition
> > > of his book, and a Epia based fanless supersmall machine with dual
> > > builtin NICs.  His book has drop in iptables rules that are excellent.
> > > Once you get that far then going thru the IPSEC Howto is not too
> > > difficult.  Just involves a kernel module compile and insertion.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Links:
> > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/VPN-Masquerade-HOWTO.html#toc3
> > > http://www.impsec.org/linux/masquerade/ip_masq_vpn.html
> > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html (this
> > > is one idea)
> > >
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Ale mailing list
> > > Ale at ale.org
> > > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 
> !DSPAM:40e88a24283448372141104!
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part




More information about the Ale mailing list