Thanks for the responses received so far everyone. This will get me started.
Unfortunately I will not be able to make the next meeting. ~Neil B. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Gustin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a number of the Alix boards (3 personally at the moment) and I > am real fan. I have run a variety of distros on them, specifically > ZeroConf, OpenWRT, Voyage (a Debian distro with some customizations to > run from a CF card and to support things like the Alix and Soekris > specific hardware, like the LEDs on the ALIX), and. I believe that > IPFire even has a release designed to be installed on the Alix boards, > though this I have not tested. I long ago moved away from IPCop. > > I used one my Alix 2D2 boards this past weekend to load balance 3 3G > connections for a gaming booth at the Entertainment Expo. Worked like > a charm. > > My one complaint is that they top out at 100 Mbit. This is currently > not a huge issue since I tend to use them at the edge of the network, > but since Shaw is now offering (and delivering) 100 Mbit connections, > we are close to reaching the limit of these things (even with the > on-board AES hardware accelerator they cannot do wire-speed VPN so for > some applications we have exceeded their capabilities). > > I can bring one of mine in for the next meeting if you want to have a > look and play with one before purchasing. > > One other option is routerboard. Theirs are ARM based (instead of the > x86 Soekris and Alix). > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:22 AM, CITS - Lists > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been using Endian for some time now. At one client I have 1 green, > one red 1 orange zone setup with a web server and a wireless Nic for my > private use only. I've had minimal problems and only 1 failure following an > automatic update to the blacklist a few months ago. Highly recommended IMHO. > > > > > > Dave Watkins > > > > 1-403-701-5746 > > [email protected] > > www.calgaryitservices.com > > > > Sent from my iPhone, pardon the brevity. > > > > On 2011-06-21, at 0:12, Neil B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm looking at building a firewall type appliance on a small form factor > hardware. I currently have a linksys wireless router with openwrt but I want > to replace it. > >> > >> Looking at something like IP Cop for the software end and looking for > something somewhat quiet and greenish on the hardware end. I'm looking for > success stories and/or failures as far as what worked and what didn't. > >> > >> Any information/recommendations would be greatly appreciated. > >> > >> Cheers! > >> > >> ~Neil B. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> clug-talk mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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