Act ubuntu server a an ADSL modem

[Frank]

On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 18:10 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:

> the best was Smoothwall:
> http://www.smoothwall.org/
> 
> There was also an all-Free fork of it, called IPCop:
> http://ipcop.org/

There is also pfSense
http://www.pfsense.org

> However, these have all faded away in the last few years,

Faded away? They all released new versions recently! 

>  because of
> the cost of the electricity to run an old PC 24*7.

True!
But... take a look here:
http://www.pcengines.ch

Small, low power servers for network security, wireless networking, or
embedded applications. 
The alix2d3 has 3 NICs and it needs only 5-7 W/h of power.