[wellylug] mini ITX systems

[Wood Brent]

> >intersting possibilities about diskless firewalls, etc...
> 

> 
> Booting a firewall off an external source is (a) asking for catch-22
> situations (need the firewall up so something plays nicely so that you
> can boot the firewall), and (b) adding the possibility of hacking the
> boot process through arp cache poisoning and the like.

Agreed. I have seen a couple of simple SOHO implementations (fairly basic
firewall requiremens). Given the boot system was behind the firewall, & nothing
fancy was required, it worked OK. These days I'd look at a floppy boot or other
removeable media. New 20Gb hard drives drives are down to about $100, so it
isn't really the issue it was a few years ago :-)