Whoa, that board might be TOO under powered...  What I was thinking was something with a physical drive in it... that would be, eventually, replaced with an SSD. 

If I can add the wireless itself TOO it, great! Now they can update the password more often and do it from home. It's not that I'm against the Compact Flash idea - I'm a sports photographer by current trade and have really good use for 32GB CF cards. :)

But I'm looking at it. Thanks for the info!

On Dec 28, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Erik Mitchell wrote:

> Check out PFSense (http://www.pfsense.org/). It's a firewall/router
> distribution based on FreeBSD. You can run it on a regular PC or on
> embedded systems. I've used this board several times:
> http://www.mini-box.com/Alix-2B-Board-3-LAN-3-MINI-PCI_4?sc=8&category=1361
> and have been very happy with what it can do.
> 
> PFSense is going to give you every opportunity to manage the traffic
> going through it. I'm not sure how hard it would be to get the result
> you want, but I know it's possible. I have a couple of friends (one
> who is on this list) who have done more with pfsense than I have and
> would probably be able to answer questions more in depth.
> 
> -Erik
> 
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:
>> I have a colleague that owns a coffee shop and he gives his customers Comcast's fastest internet (he's a really nice guy).
>> 
>> But he's got some clients who leech him to share movies and TV shows and he's been getting between 10-30 letters per week from Comcast about these shares. He's spent many hundreds of dollars on wifi routers to try and filter without any luck.
>> 
>> I'm thinking a micro computer with dual NICs and running everything through a firewall to filter out and/or monitor traffic. What are you your recommendations? I'm a FreeBSD person by history but I build webservers, not filter/monitor firewalls.
>> 
>> I'm not against new OSes, either, just be prepared for to give some guiding advice from time to time.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan Coleman
>> 
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