From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 09:29:38 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2CF1065675 for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C86F8FC0C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 09:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p619TZce086173; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:29:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4E0D937F.3080902@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:29:35 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110430 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Brennan References: <20110630223451.GA23355@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110630223451.GA23355@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Looking to build a router box, seeking some general advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:29:38 -0000 On 06/30/11 23:34, Chris Brennan wrote: > Greetings! > > While trying to learn IPv6 as best as I can and messing with my Linksys > WRT54Gv3 router running DD-WRT, I realized that it cannot properly do > IPv6 yet. This leaves me rather limited. More then once some people on > IRC who were helping me with this suggested I build my own router, this > has been something I've been looking to do for quite some time and this > might be the fire I need lit to get motivated. The overall suggested > board was an ALIX board[1] from PC Engines[1]. > > This is all rather new to me so I am unsure where to go from here, what > all is needed (a breakdown of necessary/optional hardware/items). The > memory and cpu I know I could google for w/o much issue. What I foresaw > as problematic was a case for the device and a power supply. Are these > just as easily googled for? Inversely, instead of me building my own > (which would be great experience!) is there a place that sells devices > such as these pre-assembled? You don't say where you live. Here in the UK I got my Alix board and case (I run pfSense as my router/firewall) from LinITX.com: http://linitx.com/search.php?keywords=alix