Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:06:54 +0100 From: John Murphy <jfm@blueyonder.co.uk> To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Going small Message-ID: <3a8q70tlt97mcr8llt61ff158gtudful25@4ax.com>
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Hope everyone had a nice easter. I've decided to stop messing about with noisy old 486s for the gateway/ firewall. The one I've been configuring runs just fine but it has a large hot heatsink cooling some power transistor/regulator devices and I just don't trust it for 24/7 use in a cupboard... I'm going to get a Soekris Net4801 and fit a 30G HD from a broken laptop I was given. Just undecided whether to get it from the USA or Belgium (I'm in the UK); the 21%VAT against the better exchange rate etc. (Update: they were out of stock at the manufacturers so I've ordered one from http://soekris.kd85.com with case and 2.5" hard drive mounting kit. Got my name on the last one! I could have it before the weekend.) I don't know much about them at this stage, except they run FreeBSD of course and they're probably ten times as efficient as the thing I was going to use. http://www.soekris.com/ I'll write my findings here if no-one strongly objects. Some good pages I've found so far: http://www.xinu.nl/unix/soekris/net4801/ http://phk.freebsd.dk/soekris/ http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/ProductInformation/0,,50_2= 330_9863_10524,00.html I'll be going against the recommendation to use a physically separate device for the firewall on the grounds that I can enable some server side filtering at the ISP and I can't afford two soekrises just now. So it will run ipf, ipnat, ipmon, ftpd, ntp, bind (caching only at first), sendmail and boa (web server). --=20 John.
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