On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Robert Rich wrote:
>
>
> $300+ ain't bad. A Soekris 4801 with all the trimmings is about $350. That's
> still a heck of a lot cheaper than a Cisco PIX firewall. How large would one
> of these VIA machines be? They look about the same size, but they require
> a standard power supply? That would bulk up the case quite a bit, I think.

Hi!

The Pix 506E has only 2 FE Interfaces (Intel), but an Celeron Class
Processor. a 506E costs about 700$ last time I checked.

It would be rather interesting to do a performance review of a Pix against
a Soekris or WRAP M0n0wall appliance. (NAT,Static Portfiltering, etc.)

regards
  Robert



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