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
>>>> 
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