On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 09:47:30PM -0500, Chris Buechler wrote: > Even Snort with a lighter config is probably doable. But yeah if you > push it past its limits, which isn't hard to do when you're running > Snort, you can easily kill the box. There is no swap, so when you run > out of RAM, things can go haywire.
Transcend e.g. sells affordable 300x (SLC) CF flash which should be robust enough to take a swap file. I plan to install such a card into my current ALIX home router tomorrow. > Aside from running crazy things that you shouldn't be with 256 MB RAM, > the ALIX hardware and embedded is rock solid. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
