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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > > > -- > Erik K. Mitchell -- Web Developer > erik.mitchell at gmail.com > erik at ekmitchell.com > http://ekmitchell.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list