{"id":9253,"date":"2008-02-25T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/presenting-trashwall\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:46","slug":"presenting-trashwall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/25\/presenting-trashwall\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting: Trashwall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Trashwall\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_0604-scaled.jpg\" height=640 width=427 border=0 alt=\"The Trashwall\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presenting: <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Trashwall\">the Trashwall<\/a>, a repurposed Power Mac G4 AGP. It has been taken from an old, failing machine and turned into a powerful firewall which boots from flash, contains an 8-port managed switch, offers free public wireless via a segmented, built-in access point, and handles NAT, DNS, DHCP, NTP, and whatever else I might want it to do.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also got a shiny serial console for setup \/ management and Open Firmware. It&#8217;s basically a real PowerPC UNIX box now.<\/p>\n<p>The article is complete, I&#8217;m just waiting for a small antenna adapter cable to arrive so I can hook up the better 802.11b antenna. After that I&#8217;ll post one more photo to the article, but otherwise it&#8217;s complete.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re wanting to stick together an OpenBSD-based do-everything firewall, you could do far worse than to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/wiki\/Trashwall\">the Trashwall<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presenting: the Trashwall, a repurposed Power Mac G4 AGP. It has been taken from an old, failing machine and turned into a powerful firewall which boots from flash, contains an 8-port managed switch, offers free public wireless via a segmented, built-in access point, and handles NAT, DNS, DHCP, NTP, and whatever else I might want\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24708,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}