On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 11:21:26PM -0800, mehma sarja wrote: > 64GB SSD is under a hundred bucks now and it seems a fanless REGULAR system > (Atom 323) is do-able which should make for an awesome pfsense application. > Any Atom smashers out there?
I'm testing my Supermicro Atom box (see archive for hardware description) right now at home for stability. It's a full install on a Transcend IDE DoM (albeit with added noatime as mount option in /etc/fstab). I'll add an USB key boot with an embedded install just in case. So far it's been running idly stable for several weeks. I've set it active a few hours ago, but restoring it from the ALIX config file by manually editing the WAN/LAN/OPT interfaces in the XML file (you can use Emacs or any XML-aware editor for that). It is a bit annoying having to reinstall the packages manually, since automatic reinstall throws an error. The big minus of an Atom is that it doesn't do ECC memory, and the Supermicro doesn't do network boot nor does have IPMI. It also needs an Intel NIC since I don't trust onboard Realteks. It also doesn't support hardware encrypton acceleration (at least yet). -- 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
