Building my first gateway firewall with wireless support

[Aaron Siegel]

Hello
I appreciate  everones advice. I will purchasing a ALIX board and installing 
FreeBSD.  PFSense is not appropriate for this application, but I may use it 
for another application. I set up a network for a friend using some old 
Orinoco/Wavelan/karlnet, I fear for the day one of the component fail. The 
snmp interface can be a nightmare to work with.  


Thank you
Aaron







On Monday 03 March 2008 06:07:53 pm Aaron Siegel wrote:
> Hello
>
> My almost ten year old pc that has been running 24/7 as a firewall gateway
> is about to die.  (Of course it is running Freebsd) I would like to build a
> embedded gateway, DNS server, with DDNS client, wireless access point,
> IPSEC , and firewall.
>
> I appreciate some guidance, some helpfull links, or maybe share some of
> your experiences. I hobbyist not a developer. I do not expect this to be
> easy.
>
> My dream access point would have two interfaces one protect by IPSEC vpn
> and an unsecured (just a cheap linksys device connected to the LAN).  The
> big question how much processor power will I need to support one to ten
> clients?
>
> The LAN will support a couple of desktops, and maybe a toy server (backup
> mail server).
>
> I am looking at Soekris 48xx and if needed the vpn board.. As of now I like
> to stick with x86 platform. Any other suggestions?
>
> Thank You
> Aaron
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