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Graham's ALIX 2D3 Firewall Project

DateTuesday, March 31, 2009 at 11:20AM

I wanted a network device that I could get inside and mess about with it. I used a customised version of FreeBSD (my favourite unix) called PFSense. I used PFSense because I'm a networking guy and I wanted access to powerful network services like Captive Portal, Load Balancing, VPN and a strong network separation device. See the PFSense feature list for more.

These are the products that I used:

ALIX 2D3 System Board - LX800 / 256MB RAM / 3 LAN / mini-PCI / USB + CASE
Installed with PFSense.

Pros

  • Low power usage.
  • No operating noise.
  • Small boxed size.
  • Very stable (99 days uptime at time of writing).
  • Can be upgraded with wireless via mini-PCI.

Cons

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