December 7th, 2007 ··· andarius
I have been working on acquiring the hardware to build a new firewall for my home network. Recently I was given an AMD board along with an Athlon 2000+ CPU and video card. Go figure almost right after I find a computer sitting next to the trash drop point in my apartment complex. This one turns out to be an Intel based system. Inside is a working mini-ATX motherboard, 2 GHz socket 478 Celeron and power supply. I figure it is dead but pop in some memory and it boots right up. The CD burner in it even works.
Right now I am hoping for a pair of Intel Gigabit NICs and a CF adapter for Christmas. I get those and build myself a case and off we go. With the new Endian Firewall looking to be even better than the last version it is a shoe in for the load. As soon as I complete the hardware list I will do the build and load and perhaps post a few pics.
Of course the title of this post refers to the name. The last firewall was gate-keeper. The new one will be bit-barrier.
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