David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Leythos" <void@nowhere.lan>
>
>
> |
> | Laptops are not designed to run 24/7, they can have cooling issues.
> |
> | An old 486 might run a nix version, but you would be better off with a
> | P2 or P3 machine, or purchasing an appliance, in the long run it would
> | save you much time, which is money for most.
> |
>
> Just from comparing the power consumption issue of a COTS FireWall appliance vs. a PC setup
> as a FireWall you would save money.
>

But, if the OP insists ... they might want to check out FreeNAS. Not
Linux but Unix (FreeBSD). The blurb:

> FreeNAS
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas
> NAS (Network Attached Storage) server supporting: CIFS, FTP, NFS, RSYNC,
> SSH, AFP, Unison, UPnP, iSCSI protocols, local and MS Domain
> authentication, Software RAID (JBOD,0,1,5), disk encryption with a Full
> WEB configuration interface. 32MB only.