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Re: Pix 501, ASA 5505, or something else?

I use an older notebook for this, which puts out little heat and uses little energy, but, you’re right, it still puts out more heat than a tiny PIX, ASA or similar device.

Yeah, that's a good idea. And a laptop has a built in battery backup so that's even better. If I could get my dad's old laptop to turn on again I'd use that actually but alas it won't and I don't have any other laptops to use. Too bad too, because I've actually wanted to play with something like that. I've even thought it using of my my existing machines at the house that has Server 2003 on it as the router/firewall. I know it can do IPSec but I've never had much luck getting it to work right. Nothing like using existing hardware for another purpose (essentially free).

joel

I have used pfsense and packet fence with great results, it ran it on a p3 512 mb memory and dual 100mb nics. it is easy to setup and configure it can be up and running in now time at all.