Quest for the NAS appliance of low power
Posted by Phantom Mongoose
This is Part Deux of my low power appliance network quest of extra-ordinary magnitude.
You may recall from Part Un of our grand adventure we replaced the power hungry and quite possibly mad p233 with a new firewall / router / wireless access point / low power appliance with custom firmware.
Where next does our quest lead? I tell you, dear reader, it leads to an even bigger and louder loutish brute—or brutish lout as the case may be: the file server.
Recipe: Buffalo with Tomato Sauce
Posted by Phantom Mongoose
Over the past 6+ years I’ve been running my home firewall on an old P233 running either a custom linux firewall or the IPCop distro1. This old faithful friend has stood as a beacon of courage and truth in a sea of spam and deceitful packets. Tirelessly and without fail it protected my home network and logged its efforts meticulously.
On Earth Day this year I treated this old friend to a hero’s fate: I turned him in to be recycled.