Daniel Wright dw@wonderwave.net wrote:
http://www.mikrotik.com They have a demo online you can check out. Read about it here. http://www.mikrotik.com/2index.html (left side of page) The initial learning curve isn't to hard to get around, but once you understand it, its a breeze to work with.
The RouterBoard guys have some neat products. They've moved to 64-bit MIPS4000 series and away from AMD/NS Geode GX1 (Cyrix M2 core) products. The RouterOS is also a nice solution (although it doesn't seem to have a full security suite), it's a basic Router and NAT/PAT solution with monitoring (and it does that well).
You'll still want to have additional capabilities outside the box though.
And when I build an IPCop box, I like to go for the RouterBOARD 4x products -- 4 independent NICs on a PCI card. Especially the newer 44 which is an universal 3.3/5V card which works in any system (legacy 32-bit, 5V PCI to 3.3V PCI-X slots), and does auto-MDX (which is a Godsend for some "smaller" clients ;-).