From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 18:14:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 17AB938A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:14:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from luigi.brtsvcs.net (luigi.brtsvcs.net [IPv6:2607:fc50:1000:1f00::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E810038E for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:14:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chombo.houseloki.net (c-71-59-211-166.hsd1.or.comcast.net [71.59.211.166]) by luigi.brtsvcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 754B22D4FB4; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:14:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2601:7:2580:674:baca:3aff:fe83:bd29] (ivy.libssl.so [IPv6:2601:7:2580:674:baca:3aff:fe83:bd29]) by chombo.houseloki.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FC0729A; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:14:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5463A37C.7080103@bluerosetech.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:14:20 -0800 From: Darren Pilgrim Reply-To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julien Cigar Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? References: <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> In-Reply-To: <20141112092112.GO8131@mordor.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:14:23 -0000 On 11/12/2014 1:21 AM, Julien Cigar wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:57:02AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote: >> I am looking to replace a huge noisy old server that I have used for years >> for my home business. Looking for something inexpensive and relatively >> small to replace it with. Any recommendations guys/gals? I was even >> thinking of buying a used laptop to run FreeBSD on and set it and forget >> it. Not sure what options are out there as I have not put together a >> server in many years. > > we're using a Soekris 6501 here at work as a router/dns cache/proxy/... > and it works like a charm .. The only problem is that it doesn't boot > with the default GENERIC kernel (on amd64), due to the lack of an ACPI > BIOS I was looking at those a while back. Do you have the -30, -50, or -70? My concern was if it was capable of gigabit line rates with a real-world packet filter ruleset. What packet and data rates can it do? What kind of filtering are you doing? I'm excited to see they have a Rangeley product in the pipe.