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You can't have "cheap" and "flexible" in the same box. If by Cheap you mean a sub 150ドル COTS box, you can forget about writing your own iptables rules (for the most part) and also about doing cool stuff like IPSec, GRE, and load balancing.. A good 300ドル solution would be a mini-ITX box with an 800Mhz C3 in it, using a CF card as a system disk. That will be silent, low power, and give you all of the flexibility you currently enjoy. I've been using one of these for a long time and it works very well. E ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Whitman" <mpwhitman@comcast.net> To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:30 AM Subject: [PLUG] linux firewall replacement/upgrade > I am looking for a replacement for a linux firewall. It is running on > an old 500 mhz Dell and i want to get rid of the machine noise. It is a > FC2 box and I use iptables and NAT. I need to have the same control I > have with iptables being able to open, close and forward ports to > internal addresses. Maybe I can continue to use a linux box or maybe I > need something built specifically for this by someone like NetGear. The > solution needs to be cheap and silent. Any suggestions? > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug