I'm more concerned with getting the pieces working together - I'm not used to doing micro configurations... but I am not against trying. Thankfully the business has some money to throw at this, and since I do most of my development at the coffee house it's a fair write-off :) On Dec 28, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list