> The "god box" is always a bad idea. Yeah, I told him the "God Box" idea was a bad one. Figured I should look into it anyways. Right now his pfSense box is a Dell pentium III 866Mhz (same as the box I'm using right now to make this email) with 256Mb SD-100 ram and 5 added in Nics (plus the integrated, for a total of 6). I had a similar box running a SAMBA domain server and it was alright, so I thought I'd try to combine the two. But I digress. The God Box is out. Got that.
As a matter of fact (this is probably a generic BSD question) he wants me to do the impossible again: He has an old K6-2 box laying around and he wants me to put in a 300GB seagate drive to do a network back up to. I told him the tech is too old to support 300GB (its ATA/UDMA66 or whatever; too many titles for the same thing) But he read some tidbit on Seagate's site that a mobo BIOS flash or using the seagate software will make it so the drive can be used, and apparently that means I can do it (completely ignoring the fact that the hardware came years before even 100 GB drives) and I'm a slacker for not making it happen. So the question is, if I jumper the drive to limit it to 32GB so the darn computer will actually boot (the BIOS freezes detecting the drive), can I get FreeBSD to recognize all 300GB? I probably should check the FreeBSD man pages, but being as ill as I am right now, I feel like asking you guys first (ya'll seem nice enough ;) ) thanks for the help! Anthony (stupid flu!) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Burnette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <discussion@pfsense.com> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 6:49 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense-discussion] pfSense merge with freebsd? > DarkFoon wrote: > > I am curious if it is possible to "merge"-for want of a better > > word-pfSense with a FreeBSD install. Why? Well, I have a client who > > wants to integrate everything into 1 box if possible. I told him its not > > possible, but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't check to see if I > > am wrong. > > You could of course snag the pf rules out of a pfsense box and put in a > *bsd box if absolutely required. > > The "god box" is always a bad idea. Generally does everything poorly > (think of what a fantastic pair of scissors are included in a swiss army > knife). I have very very large clients that think the same of optical > long haul gear, routers, and switches and how they all belong in one > box. Invariably, they get burned by lousy functionality and cost > overruns. (yes, think US DoD...) > > boxen sufficient for a pfsense firewall are $100 or so from many sources > (I paid $109 on ebay for the first one, then $100 for a rack mount job > that fit in my cabinet better). Same size/capacity box should do for an > SMB server (sans Big Fantastic Disks of course). > > if that's too much $$, then the client likely can't afford you ;-) But, > isn't that what they pay you for in the first place? > > Good luck, > andy > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.1/278 - Release Date: 3/9/2006 > >
