Originally Posted by Woodstock hmmm decisions, to go with a embedded system or tack it on to the fileserver, seperate would probably be more secure, if you dont mind answering how much did you pay woodshop, that one looks awesome, wonder if there is one with integrated wireless. would it be difficult to have two internal interfaces (Ethernet and wireless)
There are WiFi cards that m0n0wall supports that can fit the mini pci slot, however the route i decided to take was to make the pcengines board simply a router and nothing more. i did NOT want to stick wifi on it because then it would have to deal with all my internal network traffic, Instead what i did is i hooked the m0n0wall directly to a 10/100/1000 switch then i'm using a NetGear Enterprise WAG102 WAP for get my a/b/g wifi but still keep the load off the router.
As for price, the board was $132, the CF cards was $10, and the CF card reader (for installing the OS image) was $5. Not cheep. as far as a router goes.. until you consider that it supports things like VPN which you got to normally buy thousand dollar cisco stuff to get.
Then there was the cost of the WAP, and the Case i'm still custom building etc.. There will be a summery thread about the whole setup once i'm done..
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There are WiFi cards that m0n0wall supports that can fit the mini pci slot, however the route i decided to take was to make the pcengines board simply a router and nothing more. i did NOT want to stick wifi on it because then it would have to deal with all my internal network traffic, Instead what i did is i hooked the m0n0wall directly to a 10/100/1000 switch then i'm using a NetGear Enterprise WAG102 WAP for get my a/b/g wifi but still keep the load off the router.
As for price, the board was $132, the CF cards was $10, and the CF card reader (for installing the OS image) was $5. Not cheep. as far as a router goes.. until you consider that it supports things like VPN which you got to normally buy thousand dollar cisco stuff to get.
Then there was the cost of the WAP, and the Case i'm still custom building etc.. There will be a summery thread about the whole setup once i'm done..
yes, the major bennifits of a linux router is flexibility (customization) and stability