--5cJDuji44TeXTx+X Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:21:11AM -0400, sean.kellyat_private wrote: > I've never heard of such a thing, but are there any little (desktop) 2-po= rt > standalone firewalls available? I would think with the growing popularity > of cable and DSL access that such a thing would be quite practical, and I= MO > setting up a *nix-based PC for the task seems like overkill. All it would > need is 2 ports, an RS-232 and some firmware. I personally don't even ha= ve > any need for NAT but I would prefer to move the filtering off my PC to a > separate box. >=20 > I checked the Nokia site and it seems like their low-end standalone is cl= ose > to what I'm describing, but I'm guessing it still costs quite a bit. Check out iproute (www.mischler.com). It runs under dos (!) from one floppy in as little as 1 or 2 mb ram. If you think an old 386 takes up too much space you could build a small box using one of those small embedded pc boards. (http://www.ampro.com/products/products.htm) =20 p. --=20 Patrick Oonk - PO1-6BONE - patrickat_private - www.pine.nl/~patrick Pine Internet B.V. PGP key ID BE7497F1 =20 Tel: +31-70-3111010 - Fax: +31-70-3111011 - http://www.pine.nl/ -- Pine Security Digest - http://security.pine.nl/ (Dutch) ---- Excuse of the day: The salesman drove over the CPU board. --5cJDuji44TeXTx+X Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia iQB1AwUBOBqcifMOST2+dJfxAQH9bAL/RS3RNq0plnYC95tjK6+XEo+H2RtM81Ei bqxgaxld9QdhREMufiunGZaW2MUVjM9jyoNJPHa977rxUXaBBMDIu9N29V8FUlpw TnK3uBqiCxiYdZVVq4wBGvHVEbYSkhUW =FSQJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --5cJDuji44TeXTx+X--
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