Ryan,

That board should handle almost anything a comcast link will throw at 
it.  I don't think it can do 1GB routing, but should be plenty powerful 
enough for 10/100. It doesn't take a lot to do routing/filtering. 500Mhz 
should be great.

==>brian.

On 12/28/2010 08:58 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
> 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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