This does look like a decent item at a nice price. Wish I had seen it 2 weeks ago, it looks smaller than what I just bought.
I just bought something that does almost the same, but for a little less. Found a guy on eBay selling used 800mhz fanless machines setup for router use. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260558034633 It works fine, I set it up as the firewall for my church, which now has a 30 Mbit synchronous fiber link. We're actually getting up to about 35Mbps up and down, between the Loma Linda fiber plant and the church (about 4 miles away.) (And pretty good link to the Internet, once we got some broken cache servers reinstalled upstream) >From that eBay page, if you wanted pfSense instead of m0n0wall, you would order the larger flash-disk module and request pfSesnse installed. I would like a CF based storage instead of the one that goes onto the IDE connector, but it works. Cost: $110 (base unit) + $20 (512Mb flash drive) = $130 for $35 more, you can change out the PCI card to the Intel dual-port NIC, and have WAN, LAN and VLAN setup. Potential downside, it comes pre-installed with pfSense 1.2.3. I'll report back in about 5 weeks once I've had a chance to setup the VLAN port and do some QOS type stuff. I probably won't play with VPN support with that box... On 5/1/11 3:19 PM, Benjamin Hargis wrote: > I took a look at this device. It looks good for the price and the > option to install a OS of your choice on the CF card. I like the fact > it uses OpenBSD's pf as well. VPN and NAT support. This is a steal. > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. > <roger.rus...@gmail.com <mailto:roger.rus...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Neal Lawson > <neal.law...@gmail.com <mailto:neal.law...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > so i have setup pfsence in a bridge mode as well, and it works > quite well, helped setup some websites to use it as their > firewall in a bridge configuration. > > As far as hardware goes i have been > using > http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D3-2D13-red-P218C83.aspx which > has an ALIX board which does support hardware crypto, openvpn > works well with it, and the box has 3 NIC's 10/100 and is low > power. > > > Ah, pre-loaded with pfSense > > http://store.netgate.com/Netgate-m1n1wall-2D3-2D13-red-P218C83.aspx > > This is definitely one of the better priced models I've come across. > > *Appliance Features:* > > * *ALIX.2D13 System Board > <http://store.netgate.com/ALIX2D13-P40.aspx>* with > o 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800 CPU > o *3* 10/100 Ethernet ports (VIA VT6105M 10/100) > o *1* miniPCI slot for future expansion (VPN > Acceleration, wireless, etc.) > o *2* USB ports > o 256 MB DDR DRAM > o Pre-installed battery > o I2C header > o COM2 header > o internal USB header for port 3 and 4 > * Laser etched red ALIX case with Ethernet, USB and antenna > cutouts > * 2GB Sandisk Ultra CF Card pre-loaded with *pfSense* > * US Plug Style 120 VAC/DC 15V 1.25A 18W Switching Power Supply > * Assembled and tested > > *Performance Metrics:* > > * Maximum throughput with filtering enabled: > * NAT - 85 Mbps > * Routing - 85 Mbps > * Bridge - 85 Mbps > > * IPsec maximum throughput without and with VPN1411 > accelerator <http://store.netgate.com/-P319C26.aspx>: > * 3DES: 13.7 Mbps vs 34.6 Mbps > * AES: 19.4 Mbps vs 34.2 Mbps > * AES256: 13.5 Mbps vs 34.2 Mbps > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org <mailto:LinuxUsers@socallinux.org> > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
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