Re: [PLUG] Cheap Firewall

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM, KP <kperry@daotechnologies.com> wrote:

I use the fitlet lan models for security nodes (4 gigabit ports). It might be overkill price-wise when you build it for what you want to do.

On May 29, 2018 8:42:07 AM PDT, Casey Bralla <MailList@NerdWorld.org> wrote:

I'm finally closing down all my servers in my basement on my comcast
commercial account and moving them all to rented servers in the cloud.Â Â
I'll be able to save a ton of money on internet charges, but will have
to give up a bunch of blinken lights.

I'm not sure how to setup a good firewall, however.

Up till now, I've been using an old PC with 3 network cards.Â But
without the servers, this is way overkill.Â Â I thought I might use an
old wireless router (in non-wireless mode) to provide NAT.Â But I'm not
sure if that is robust enough.

Any suggestions from the list on setting up a good, low-power firewall
that is capable of gigabit speeds?

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