Re: Firewall SBC

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxx>]

Quoting fluff (fluff@xxxxxxx):

> with a high end sbc, case, mini psu etc are you not approaching the
cost of
> a low end hardware firewall? Chances are that'd be more reliable.
>
> Custom hardware tends to do the job more reliably and at a lower
power
> consumption (lower heat, as well as cost of running)

Possibly, but many "black box" firewalls are just systems
running
one of the BSDs or Linux on PC hardware anyway.  Also, they're
often
just glorified packet filters, which isn't, IMNSHO, what a firewall is
about.  Part of it, perhaps, but not all.

James


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