Anyone have any good ideas for a small firewall box?

[hevnsnt]

I am building a small linux firewall, and wondering what I should put it in.. I would like a small quiet case.. Any ideas?

 

[jcovercash]

What do you want to spend? Is this a budget project, or you want a nice one?

Josh

 

[Electrode]

Old laptop

 

[oniq]

Tickle Me Elmo

 

[Heisenberg]

Just find an old Pentium 166 or something.

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
What do you want to spend? Is this a budget project, or you want a nice one?

Josh

Just a project box.. I already have all the components.. just looking for a small nice case

 

[Heisenberg]

Here's a small case that I used for my HTPC. It's microATX though.

 

[hevnsnt]

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Here's a small case that I used for my HTPC. It's microATX though.

Nice! That is very similar to what I was thinking of!

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Here's a small case that I used for my HTPC. It's microATX though.

Nice! That is very similar to what I was thinking of!

That's slick I like it.

I'm not a hardware kinda guy. Due to it small form factor, does it take a regular mobo, CPU, RAM, Video Card and PCI slots?

 

[hevnsnt]

my problem is that I have an ATX mobo

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: Heisenberg
Here's a small case that I used for my HTPC. It's microATX though.

Nice! That is very similar to what I was thinking of!

That's slick I like it.

I'm not a hardware kinda guy. Due to it small form factor, does it take a regular mobo, CPU, RAM, Video Card and PCI slots?

You have to use a microATX motherboard (I used this one) and power supply in the case. Everything else is standard hardware. The only thing is you can't use a really big video card because there's not enough space.

 

[RossMAN]

Thanks for the info.

What's a good mid-range AGP video card with DVI?

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Thanks for the info.

What's a good mid-range AGP video card with DVI?

I like cards based on the Geforce4 MX440 chipset for "budget performance" type uses. This card would be pretty good I think.

 

[jcovercash]

 

[jcovercash]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt

Originally posted by: AMDman12GHz
What do you want to spend? Is this a budget project, or you want a nice one?

Josh

Just a project box.. I already have all the components.. just looking for a small nice case

Sorry I missunderstood you.

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: hevnsnt
I am building a small linux firewall, and wondering what I should put it in.. I would like a small quiet case.. Any ideas?

I used an old P233 using a quiet ATX PS, running Freesco. It worked great.

I am currently using a P400 and 4 nics running Freesco as my firewall/router/printserver/DNSserver.