An Interface Box For Home Offices.(Product Announcement)

THIS APPLIANCE PACKS MANY FEATURES TO HELP SMALL NETWORKS CONNECT TO THE WEB

I'M NOW OFFICIALLY A FAN OF NETWORK APPLIANCES, THANKS TO the blue box sitting on a milk crate next to my desk. I'd been saying for months that I needed to do something to reconfigure the home office I share with my wife, and provide some modicum of security between our little network and the cable modem box connecting us to the Internet. I Knew it could be done fairly inexpensively with Linux, a spare PC, and a couple of Ethernet cards, but I was procrastinating.

Enter the blue box