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Gallery: The $330 IPCop/Copfilter firewall 25 watt appliance

Finally, you can run your antivirus at the gateway, thanks to the $330 IPCop/Copfilter firewall 25-watt appliance -- no gimmicks or hacks.
By George Ou, Contributor
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Logic Supply’s Perimeter B4 appliance includes 3 gigabit ports and 1 FastEthernet port.

See George Ou's blog for details on the IPCop/Copfilter appliance.
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The noise level is moderate with the three small fans inside (1 for CPU and 2 for chassis). It’s a lot quieter than your 1U Cisco switch or router and quieter than some PCs.

See George Ou's blog for details on the IPCop/Copfilter appliance.
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Inside the chassis you’ll find a standard mini-ITX Jetway J7F2WE-1G motherboard with 1 GHz Via C7 processor, which is plenty of performance for a gateway device like this.

See George Ou's blog for details on the IPCop/Copfilter appliance.
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Here I detached the hard drive and the Gigabit Ethernet daughter card. The hard drive is a standard 2.5-inch PATA IDE hard drive mounted on a metal holder.

See George Ou's blog for details on the IPCop/Copfilter appliance.
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The system comes with a 10/100 FastEthernet interface on the motherboard and a 3-port gigabit Ethernet card which uses three Realtek RTL8110SC network processing chips all compatible with Linux and BSD.

See George Ou's blog for details on the IPCop/Copfilter appliance.

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