check out the bona light system on these pages: http://mini-itx.com/hardware.asp http://www.lex.com.tw/case-light.htm
i don't think there is anything smaller than micro-atx for socket a, and none of them have dual ethernet. assuming you're wanting to make a custom case with low power/noise characteristics, the mini-itx form factor looks tough to beat. i'm planning on playing around with it soon as i get my hands on a unit. as for the firewall idea, check out devil linux: http://devil-linux.org/ jason > Well, I finally got around to putting my second Linux box together (AMD > 1.9 Ghz, 500 meg ram, fast FSB, blah, blah). Anyway, the motherboard > is dead which, I'm assuming, is due to static (it's been sitting around > for months and moved around (albeit in a static bag) many, many times). > Anyway, so I have the chip and RAM. > > I have two options and I"m curious for feedback. > > Option one is fairly simple. > > Take chip, get AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE board with two 10/100 interfaces, > built-in graphics, 2 USB, one serial, and that's about it. I want to > use my fast RAM if all possible. I'm talking about as tiny of a board > as I can find. Does anyone know of a super-small board which will > accomadate AMD chips? I want to use only the ports built into the > board and I'm not interested in running any cards. I know of some mini > boards that take Intel chips, but I don't know of any that take AMD > with built-in graphics and dual 10/100 ports. Anyone know of anything > like this? A 1U board and case would be okay, but I'm looking for > REALLY, REALLY small to make a custom case for. > > The second option is more interesting. > > How about creating a diskless station to boot off CD (also replacing > the bios with LinuxBIOS) to use as my firewall. The theory that I had > would be that if the OS is burned to CD and loaded into RAM at boot > then it would be harder to hack. A hacker could gain access and > possible change some configurations but once it's rebooted from ROM and > the LinuxBIOS it should return back to it's original config. I'm not > interested in running a web server but if I were I suppose I could > change the iptables file, burn a new CD and reboot and VOLIA - port 80 > would be open and forwarded to my other machine. > > Is a configuration like this possible? Is it not a good idea? Or just > a stupid idea for some reason that I'm not seeing in my sleepy fog? > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html ------------------------ Jason Tower Cerient Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
