Re: Lightweight standalones? WAS: BlackIce Defender???

[Patrick Oonk <patrick () pine nl>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 1999 at 11:21:11AM -0400, sean.kelly () lanston com wrote:
> I've never heard of such a thing, but are there any little (desktop) 2-port
> standalone firewalls available?  I would think with the growing popularity
> of cable and DSL access that such a thing would be quite practical, and IMO
> setting up a *nix-based PC for the task seems like overkill.  All it would
> need is 2 ports, an RS-232 and some firmware.  I personally don't even have
> any need for NAT but I would prefer to move the filtering off my PC to a
> separate box.
>
> I checked the Nokia site and it seems like their low-end standalone is close
> to what I'm describing, but I'm guessing it still costs quite a bit.

Check out iproute (www.mischler.com). It runs under dos (!)
from one floppy in as little as 1 or 2 mb ram. If you think an old 386
takes up too much space you could build a small box using one of
those small embedded pc boards.
(http://www.ampro.com/products/products.htm)        

        p.

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