My new firewall!
 

Hi All :)

This past Friday, I got my Soekris embedded board and case by mail :)
So I put in a little Compact Flash card (32MB, the smallest I had laying around!), and transfered the 4MB m0n0Wall firmware image, and now I have a rock solid FreeBSD based solution with traffic shaping (bandwidth balancing) that ROCKS :!: :lol:
Price I paid for the above configuration was $181.00, plus shipping.

Here's a picture of my firewall, which is up and running (picture shown as it is right now) and fully operational.
And all I can say is that I love it :D
(The FreeBSD sticker didn't come with the case ;) )

http://www.digitalfaq.com/archives/error.gif

This is what the software can do:

• * web interface (supports SSL)
  * serial console interface for recovery
  o set LAN IP address
  o reset password
  o restore factory defaults
  o reboot system
  * wireless support (access point with PRISM-II/2.5/3 cards, BSS/IBSS with other cards including Cisco)
  * captive portal
  * 802.1Q VLAN support
  * stateful packet filtering
  o block/pass rules
  o logging
  * NAT/PAT (including 1:1)
  * DHCP client, PPPoE, PPTP and Telstra BigPond Cable support on the WAN interface
  * IPsec VPN tunnels (IKE; with support for hardware crypto cards and mobile clients)
  * PPTP VPN (with RADIUS server support)
  * static routes
  * DHCP server
  * caching DNS forwarder
  * DynDNS client
  * SNMP agent
  * traffic shaper
  * SVG-based traffic grapher
  * firmware upgrade through the web browser
  * Wake on LAN client
  * configuration backup/restore
  * host/network aliases

More information here:
http://m0n0.ch/wall/

-kwag

Nice setup Karl, looks and sounds really impressive. :)

Thanks Zyphon :)
It is really an impressive piece of hardware, and software.

-kwag

I've got a similar setup up and running for already a few weeks without a single hickup.
Karl did you mention PPTP/IPSec server?
This is just great :)
Cheers

No :!: I forgot :D
And yesterday I tested the Net4801 (on a customer's site), and it's really great :)
But I'm happy like a pig with the Net4501 above. It's working like a charm.
BTW, they added the picture here: http://m0n0.ch/wall/gallery.php (top left) :cool:

-kwag