One more ethernet port....
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| Author | Content |
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| rijelkentaurus Jul 21, 2008 4:39 PM EDT |
If this thing had one more ethernet port, I'd buy them and start selling them to my clients as firewalls (assuming I can boot off an external hard drive in order to image the flash, or install a system). For less than $300 you can have something that's better than anything Linksys or SonicWALL (who my company generally sells to businesses) can come up with, with a web cache, gateway AV and content filter rolled into it. Is there anything like this with two ethernet ports? |
| techiem2 Jul 21, 2008 4:49 PM EDT |
USB ethernet card? (yes I know, not exactly ideal, but doable) |
| rijelkentaurus Jul 21, 2008 4:59 PM EDT |
Yes, doable for me, but hard as heck to convince a client of...perhaps a non-profit, but not a for-profit company. |
| techiem2 Jul 21, 2008 5:45 PM EDT |
hehe. True. |
| gus3 Jul 21, 2008 8:14 PM EDT |
Or one-NIC NAT? One Ethernet card, with a conventional external address and an aliased internal address. Yes, the best throughput is half what it could normally be, but on a budget, it works. |
| Steven_Rosenber Jul 22, 2008 9:16 AM EDT |
If you're doing firewalls and routers, just go for a Soekris ... |
| rijelkentaurus Jul 22, 2008 1:08 PM EDT |
Hey, those are cheap...and right what I'm looking for! Cool, thanks. |
| number6x Jul 22, 2008 1:12 PM EDT |
wireless firewall/gateway for coffee shop or small business might work. |
| Steven_Rosenber Jul 22, 2008 1:51 PM EDT |
The storage is in the Amazon cloud ... |
| rijelkentaurus Jul 22, 2008 3:39 PM EDT |
You should be able to image it with whatever you want, I suppose...assuming it boots with a PC or USB drive, which most things do now. |
| azerthoth Jul 23, 2008 9:25 AM EDT |
Just hope they didn't take the approach that OLPC did. Getting a seperate OS to boot on that lime green brick can be a real treat. If you ever try, give yourself a couple of days, one of which is getting the security key from them that will allow you to do it at all in the first place. After that, the real fun begins. |
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