I run OpenBSD on a sun ultra10 system (sparc64) with four interfaces (one on board hme(4), dual interface fxp(4), and an xl(4) card) serving up my personal test lab on a for a LAN subnet, a server DMZ, and a wireless DMZ.
You can find these boxes for under $200 used, I got mine for $110 at a local shop in Seattle, it's 440Mhz, 256mb ecc pc133 sdram, and a 20gb ide drive which is plenty fast for packet filtering, dhcp, and dns which I use it for. I imagine it could keep up with a fair amount of traffic without problems. Hope that helps, -Ian On 11/28/05, Bob Ababurko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have $300 to spend, what hardware should I look at to make an embedded > OpenBSD/pf firewall. I am looking for 3 NIC's so I can implement a DMZ. > I am looking for an alternative to the Soekris 4801.....since I do not > know much about these systems, I am not sure if I should look no further > than that board. It just seems a bit low on horsepower, usch that I > would not be able to do much beyond a packet filter.....but on the same > token, a $300 embedded system may not yield much beyond that anyway. > > I am hoping to find out what other people are using. > > TIA, > Bob > > > >
