Planning soekris project
In the market for a reliable, cheap, low power firewall, and already familiar with OpenBSD & PF, I’ve been eying the Soekris line of products. This project looks like it’ll be just a little more involved than buying something off the shelf, but way more flexible, and have more parts in common with other stuff I’m already using.
From my research, it looks like the necessary pieces are:
- Soekris 4501 & case - $173
- power supply - $11
- 2 GB SanDisk CF - $26
- USB card reader - $12 (to write to the CF card, naturally)
- Null Modem & USB <-> DB9 cable - $27 (no hardware with DB9 around)
So, for about $250 + some shipping, and a bit of fiddling around time, this could be a pretty robust solution. I’m not sure I’d care to work out all the installation and configuration details myself, but there are a couple guides to getting everything up & running. I’ll certainly add my own notes if I go through with this.