You should easily be able to boot these things from a CD, floppy, etc. You could also get one of those SMALL cheap solid state hard drives.... OpenBSD only requires <128 megs of hard drive to do this with. All of the functionality is built into the kernel.
However, I understand your desire to go with an embedded/hardware solution. Shannon Dustin Puryear wrote: > We are looking for a solution with no major moving parts (ie., HD). > > At 02:36 PM 2/24/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >> I had luck on reasonable hardware with OpenBSD/IPSec. It can be >> configured as a NAT/Firewall/Router, etc. pretty trivially. At >> speeds up to about 15 Mbit, common hardware does fine. If you have >> questions about my setup let me know. >> >> One more thing - avoid the Symantec VPN boxes at all costs!!!! they >> blew away the ARP tables on my servers. Had to go around and >> manually clear the ARP cache on all of my servers. >> >> Shannon >> >> Dustin Puryear wrote: >> >>> I have a client looking to connect three offices eventually, but >>> only two right now. We are going to first attempt a VPN solution >>> before looking at a leased-line solution due to cost. There is a >>> tight budget involved here, so I am having to avoid some solid >>> choices for the VPN hardware (ie., Cisco). The Internet connection >>> will be through business DSL with 768Kbit/s down and 256Kbit/s up at >>> both sites. >>> >>> Currently I'm taking a look at the Netopia R910. Looks good but >>> unfortunately there aren't that many reviews. Any other >>> recommendations? The price range is up to $300 per site. If the >>> product is both a firewall and VPN gateway that's even better, but >>> VPN is the major issue. >>> >>> --- >>> Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Puryear Information Technology >>> Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting >>> http://www.puryear-it.com >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > --- > Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Puryear Information Technology > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
