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Fun with firewalls

By ubernietzschean | April 1, 2008

So, I decided that I needed a traffic-shaping firewall for my house to better optimize my use of my bandwidth and to avoid sluggish connections when I’m uploading or downloading. While my linksys router with dd-wrt can do a limited amount of traffic shaping, I was looking for something a little more sophisticated.

I came across a deal for an Intel Server for $60.  It features a 1.26GHz Intel Pentium 3 CPU with 512k L2 cache, 1 GB of ECC memory, dual-NICs and a management port.  All-in-all, a steal.  It simply needed an IDE hard drive (or two) and some disk trays which I obtained for a mere $12/ea.  A perfect system for… OpenBSD!

I am now in the process of configuring this beast to be my replacement NATing firewall.  Its hostname will be iris.penguinmilitia.net named for the Greek goddess Iris, messenger of the Gods to humanity and the personification of the rainbow.

On Friday, Master Joe will instruct me in the art of PF under OpenBSD so we can get this thing working.

Best of luck to me!

über nietzschean

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