I'm in the process of setting up network, and I was wondering what people use for a firewall.
This is not going to be a commercial hosting operation, so $$ are important, as is complexity. I'm running on COX, and have 2 IP's from them so I can manage my own DNS resolution (I'll be hosting a few sites, and dealing with COX for every change would be a pain).
My current plan is to have both IP's point to a single physical box (2x1GHz PIII, 1GB, 80GB disk, 2 ethernet cards) that will handle both DNS and hosting (the sites will be low volume).
I have 2 fvs318 netgear firewalls that I could put on different subnets (each one would forward to one of the cards on the hosting box), or a soekris box running linux with 3 ports on it that I could use as a firewall, or I can buy another firewall.
One of the subnets will also be used for my home office network.
This is not going to be a commercial hosting operation, so $$ are important, as is complexity. I'm running on COX, and have 2 IP's from them so I can manage my own DNS resolution (I'll be hosting a few sites, and dealing with COX for every change would be a pain).
My current plan is to have both IP's point to a single physical box (2x1GHz PIII, 1GB, 80GB disk, 2 ethernet cards) that will handle both DNS and hosting (the sites will be low volume).
I have 2 fvs318 netgear firewalls that I could put on different subnets (each one would forward to one of the cards on the hosting box), or a soekris box running linux with 3 ports on it that I could use as a firewall, or I can buy another firewall.
One of the subnets will also be used for my home office network.