Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote: http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html Does anyone know the dimensions of it? Can't find them on the website It's an Axiomtek NA-320FL, and according to

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-11-17, Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de wrote: Maurice Janssen maur...@z74.net wrote: http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html Does anyone know the dimensions of it? Can't find

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel André
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:47:53PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote: Hi guys- I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. The

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/11/16 Pierre-Emmanuel André p...@raveland.org: At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html Very nice. What do you use for mass storage? The industrial

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:30:26PM -0600, Axton wrote: The supermicro Atom based machines are nice. I am a fan of the remote management interface, which allows power cycle, KVM over IP, virtual media, etc. Really? KVM over IP on Supermicro doesn't work from OpenBSD. Serial console

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Chris McGee cmcge...@gmail.com wrote: The Soekris Net4x series uses an anonymous ethernet chip that you can't quite read in the photos and it's not listed in the spec sheet. I am pretty sure the Net4501-30 has a VM552RR chip, but I don't know who makes That's just the transformer. The

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel André
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:06:54PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: 2012/11/16 Pierre-Emmanuel André p...@raveland.org: At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Forman, Jeffrey
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Michel Blais mic...@targointernet.comwrote: I now use Lanner FW-7535 instead. Cost a little more but like them better and Lanner service is great. Atom board with case + 6 Intel NIC. I think those are also 82574L so not the fastest intel NIC but for low budget

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Forman, Jeffrey li...@jeffreyforman.net wrote: I mainly bought the machine because I liked being able to throw a cheap huge PATA hard drive in there, and not be concerned with flash's supposed write-limit, or mucking about with read-only filesystem, among other things. Funny. I'd rather

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Peter J. Philipp
Am 16.11.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Russell Garrison russell.garri...@gmail.com: I can also vouch for the Lanner, but make sure you get the fanless model. I bought the ones with fans to go into a noisy server room, but they spent a week or two in testing on my desk. People walking by kept thinking

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-11-16, Forman, Jeffrey li...@jeffreyforman.net wrote: I mainly bought the machine because I liked being able to throw a cheap huge PATA hard drive in there, and not be concerned with flash's supposed write-limit, or mucking about with read-only filesystem, among other things. I've used

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Pierre-Emmanuel Andr? wrote: At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html Works very fine. Does anyone know the

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Justin Mayes
: Hardware hunting Hi guys- I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. The firewall's current incarnation pulls about 160 watts

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Michel Blais
I have one Jetway board in production with 5.0 with intel daughterboard work fine but it's only 3 intel NIC so would have to use one realtek. I didn't try realtek NIC with lot of traffic. I now use Lanner FW-7535 instead. Cost a little more but like them better and Lanner service is great.

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris McGee Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:48 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Hardware hunting Hi guys- I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least 10 years, whenever my

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread James Shupe
On 11/15/12 4:06 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: Have Soekris put out a Gbit NIC platform yet? I stopped using them because of this reason. -Joel Yeah, the 6501 series is awesome. A bit pricy, but definitely something I recommend. On another note, I use some old Wyse WT941GL machines I

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Chris McGee cmcge...@gmail.com wrote: I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. The

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Chris McGee
Thanks for all the feedback! I really like the look of the Soekris boards. The Soekris website isn't that helpful, but I jotted down all my research in case someone else wanted to look at it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqjAAj_-IRQkdEs3TWNkZnZrUGs0S0FjYnRYQjFJZlE (That's not

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Axton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Chris McGee cmcge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys- I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on