On 2007/04/17 11:26, christian johansson wrote: > I'm looking for a very small, cheap and low-power machine to use as a > (residential) firewall with openbsd on it.
Runs ok on soekris net4501, net4801, and pcengines WRAP (1E for sure, probably 2C as well). They are rather cpu-limited, if you're expecting more than about 20Mbps of traffic, any heavy-duty crypto, or complex filtering/NAT rules, you're better to look elsewhere, but they are very low power for an x86 compatible (something like 0.5A at 12V). These ones don't have standard video, you'll need a null-modem serial cable. There are various VIA Eden-based systems, quicker but draw more power and the ones that are more suitable as firewalls are usually more expensive. Some of them have had on-chip AES support for a while. The newer Geode LX systems (forthcoming Soekris net5501, or various others) are a bit quicker and have on-chip AES support in OpenBSD 4.1. > I've been looking at some geode cards, like this one: > http://www.commell-sys.com/Product/SBC/LE-342.htm (3.5" form factor) Haven't seen one, but if you can get hold of one, my guess is it would probably work. It's likely to be more expensive than soekris/pcengines. > Has anyone here built and/or installed openbsd on such a machine? Can you > recommend anything like vendors, storage device you used (solid state chip > perhaps?), how much you paid for it etc? CompactFlash is fine as storage.
