On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 01:17:05PM -0800, Sean Comeau wrote:
try these:
http://www.commell-sys.com/News/COMMELL_20040610_EMB564.htm
Buy two of them. They cost about $300 a piece. The 256MB of ram and 4 NICs
they have onboard is sufficient. The 512MB CF disks are $80 each. $800 for
a
$537.50 here http://www.bwi.com/prod/348333. Picked one up a week ago
under a different brand name Jmatec vs Commell-sys.
--On Wednesday, November 30, 2005 07:24:50 -0800 Sean Comeau
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Oops sorry, these are actually more like $800 each.
Am Dienstag, 29. November 2005 15:16 schrieben Sie:
Hi Marco,
The moral of the story is that you don't need much disk for a
firewall. Besides you said no moving parts, RAID by definition
adds more moving parts of the kind that fail most often.
Well, you could always do software RAID of
I totally appreciate everybodies comments and I have in fact decided to
pass over the embedded solution. We just picked up a Sun Netra T105
(440Mhz, 512MB)on ebay. It was about $135 shipped and have two onboard
NIC's. I have always like Sun hardware and it works well with OpenBSD,
it is some of
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:11:26AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i wanted to build a couple small machines on the cheap a few months ago, so i
went to http://www.mini-box.com/s.nl/sc.8/category.99/.f and got a couple VIA
EPIA 5000 boards, bought the cases i used elsewhere, and plugged a
Awesome - good deal. I have a Netra X1 running openbsd and it's rock solid.
Good luck,
-Ian
On 11/30/05, Bob Ababurko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I totally appreciate everybodies comments and I have in fact decided to
pass over the embedded solution. We just picked up a Sun Netra T105
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:29:21PM -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote:
... I wanted a
system that did not have moving parts. This was to hopefully extend the
life of the machine and increase uptime by eliminating the hard drives
and power supplies with moving parts. I am not paying for power so I
Actually, when I am in a position to use carp and pfsync
I often do not bother with embedded, unless I have power concerns.
If you want embedded buy the comell box suggested earlier, but if
you really have no budget, dont bother with raid or other such nonsense.
go find two cheap
I have an anecdote when it comes to disk in a firewall. My good old
trusty sparc64 firewall's disk had died. At first I didn't notice it
because the packets kept flowing but after a while I noticed some
strange behavior so I decided to login to it and see what was wrong.
Hmmm no login,
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 02:29:21PM -0500, Bob Ababurko wrote:
The alternative is to use a dual P3 that we have but I am still
interested in optimum availibility. Do I implement RAID 1 with two
drives.OR does this create more problems that it is worth by
introducing more parts to
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