Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:21:00 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Nico Meijer <nico@familiemeijer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions List <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mini atx for firewall Message-ID: <20031119152100.GE5731@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <3FBB8832.1010104@familiemeijer.org> References: <20031119092126.X20731@zoraida.natserv.net> <3FBB8832.1010104@familiemeijer.org>
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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Francisco, > > >Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? > > It's mini ITX and yes, just did one yesterday. Small, quiet and > beautiful. ;-) > > It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=794445+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030928.freebsd-questions > > >My primary concern is the network card. Since these small machines only > >have one PCI slot I will add one card for the internal network and then > >would need the onboard card to connect to the outside world. > > I tried a 3com 3c905 with this box and it wouldn't boot. Putting in a > RTL8139 worked flawlessly. Since the box won't be doing any 'real' work, > that's okay with me for now. > > HTH... Nico I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter for the 'outside' interface on my ME6000, since I needed the PCI slot for the wireless card. Seems to work just fine - it's only talking to a cable modem so the fact that the USB connection only runs at 11Mbps is not a problem. Just another option to consider. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon
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