[lug] Wanted: Tiny diskless, fanless Linux Box for Firewall/Router/Hub/NAT

[Lee Woodworth]

The Soekris boxes may do what you want:
	http://www.soekris.com
Other people in the group can tell you more. Another option
may be the mini-itx motherboards pioneered by VIA:
	http://www.mini-itx.com

OTOH, you don't absolutely need multiple IP addresses to host
multiple domains on the same box. The only exceptions are if
you must support really old/brain-dead browsers that don't send
the HOST: header, or where you have multiple SSL domains and
each of them must be on their own port 443.

In your apache config file (e.g. apache.conf):

NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
    ServerName www.domain1.com
    ..... domain1 directives
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80>
    ServerName www.domain2.com
    ..... domain2 directives
</VirtualHost>


Siegfried Heintze wrote:
> I'm really frustrated with LinkSys, D-Link and Motorola's low end
> wireless-access-points/firewall/router/hub/nat boxes. It is bad enough that
> DLink's tech support hung up on me and Motorola's tech support advised me to
> download a buggy firmware upgrade that rendered the little box useless.
> 
> Apparently none of these little boxes can accommodate multiple external IP
> addresses in such a way that I can host multiple web sites in Apache HTTPD.
> Apparently these little boxes can only accommodate a single external IP
> address. They seem to have the user interface on their firewall settings
> page to specify multiple external addresses. It is very confusing and tech
> support is not very helpful.
> 
> Can someone recommend a favorite diskless (well, maybe a floppy or CD
> reader), fanless linux box with a tiny footprint that I could bolt to the
> underside of my desk run Linux to fix my firewall routing problems? Linux
> firewalls will do what I need, won't they?
> 
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
> 
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