> I want a small, quiet, low-power firewall box for my home
> network (cable modem link) and I'm looking at this unit:
> http://www.soekris.com/net4501.htm
>
> Does anyone have any experience with this board?
unfortunately no as i have tons on old 486 machines and small disks and
NICs.

but it looks GREAT. 3 ethernets, serial, compactflash for software (8MB is
more that enough for well-cut system), 64MB of SDRAM memory and fast CPU
for that task (486/133, but with SDRAM), and  PCI slot.

IMHO with PCI IDE or SCSI interface it could work as nice router and
fileserver.

the problem is how much will transport cost to for example poland. this
eliminates their nice slim case that probably weights somewhat.