Smoothwall - Sole purpose boxes

[Donovan]

Hello,

I am looking for a solution. Basically, at the moment I have a whole pentium system running with the sole purpose of being the firewall. To me, this seems a bit of an overkill.

All smoothwall needs to run is some disk space (possibly flash disk space?), some ram, and two network cards, oh and obviously a processor etc, a 486 with 16MB ram would do[8D]... and IDE connectors for CD-ROM installation..

Would anyone be able to suggest some sort of almost solid state system, where it just has a VGA out, keyboard in, and the abovementioned requirements? Something smaller than a full sized PC would actually be ideal.

Any suggestions?

 

[Donovan]

Aww come on guys ;-)

 

[ProAsm]

The problem comes in for what you looking for it will cost the price of at least a P4 fullhouse PC.
Eagle Electronics in Capetown keep what you are looking for, but you gonna need to dig deep to afford it []
Grab an old P1 or P2 somewhere, thats what I have and works great.


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[Donovan]

Thank you ProAsm,

Ooh dear. I'm trying to organise things so that they are cheaper for the customer - I thought that this would be a better idea.

Back to the drawing board [] Thank you for your help!

 

[bb_matt]

When you say "a pentium system", a pentium what ?

I have a PII 266 with 32 meg of ram and a 1 gig HD running smoothwall at home - I don't consider that overkill, I consider it saving a dead PC.

I also have a PIII 700 with 128 meg sdram and a 6gig HD that I'm about to use as a smoothwall firewall at work. I honestly can't think what else to use it for - it's old, slow and I've already got three operational PC's (a P4 and two AMD - 2400 and 2800) - a fileserver may be another option, but I don't have the time to install Linux and configure it as a firewall right now, so I'll just smoothwall it.

If it's a PII and below, bite the bullet and make it into a smoothwall.

 

[Donovan]

Very true.

The thing is, and old slower model PC would do, but I am looking for something a little more "sleek" to run the smoothwall on.

Currently my smoothwall is running on an old 166 box, without a problem... believe it or not, even with the network problems, it's been up and connected for about 5 days solid now (tower 82, honeydew).

It would just be more effective to have a smaller router/firewall combination, running smoothwall.