On Jun 25, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Diego Barrios <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Excelent information Jim! > > Can you confirm if these chipsets are compatible with PFsense 2.0.1 ? The PER-C10L-A10-03 has a Intel® 82541GI on-board, and it's supported in FreeBSD as far back as the 4.x days, so it should be fine in something based on a modern FreeBSD release, (such as pfSense 2.0.1). http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/em/if_em_hw.c?v=FREEBSD4 378 case E1000_DEV_ID_82541ER: 379 case E1000_DEV_ID_82541GI: 380 case E1000_DEV_ID_82541GI_LF: 381 case E1000_DEV_ID_82541GI_MOBILE: 382 hw->mac_type = em_82541_rev_2; 383 break; You'll want something more like FreeBSD 7.2 to support the one based on the 82551QM, thats when TOS off-loading got fixed. I didn't investigate the Realtek chipsets, since most people dislike those. The short answer is "Yes". > > http://www.tri-m.com/products/aaeon/files/specs/perc20u10l_spec.pdf > > Do you know if it comes with cable to provide the RJ-45 female interface? This says it comes with a "LAN cable": ftp://data.aaeon.com.tw/DOWNLOAD/2007%20datasheets/ECD/PER-C10L.pdf It strikes me that if you only care about 10/100 Ethernet, you could also use a USB - Ethernet adapter. The Alix 2d3/2d13 have 3 10/100 Ethernets on-board, and 2 USB sockets present on the outside of the case. Jim > > Regards, > > Seko > > > > From: "Jim Thompson" <[email protected]> > To: "pfSense support and discussion" <[email protected]> > Cc: "ignacio" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 8:58:33 PM > Subject: Re: [pfSense] Low(ish) cost pfSense platforms > > > On Jun 25, 2012, at 6:45 PM, Diego Barrios <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > I have the same problem here, need a "low-power low-cost" solution like the > excelent Alix board, but with 4 or more 10/100 ports. > > After weeks of research I discovered that there is nothing like the Alix > boards with more ports =/. You can find some good ARM and PPC solutions with > a lot of NICs, but not i386, and unfortunatelly PFsense only runs on Intel > platform. > > Soekris have some good options, they assembly boards (and cases) like Alix, > but with a PCI slot you can plug for example a 4-port PCI NIC on it, the > problem is the price... too high for a SMB solution with a really slow 233mhz > CPU. They have some better CPU but too expensive. > > http://soekris.com/products/net4801-48-bc-lan1641b.html > > It's very difficult to get any margin on Soekris boards. > > The best thing i found was an AAEON (Taiwan) model FWS-2300 with SATA port > (so you can run a proxy for example) and 4 GBIT LAN. > > http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/Network-Appliance-is-designed-for-IDS-IPS-UTM-applications-580284 > > http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Aaeon-FWS2300/ > > This AAEON FWS-2300 costs aproximatelly USD 300 > > Aaeon also builds some miniPCI 10/100 or 10/100/1000 Ethernet modules. This > would require a custom case, but that's approachable. > > Were I convinced of a market, I'd order several in and take a stab at a > prototype case. That would get you to 4 (3x10/100, 1x10/100 or > 1x10/100/1000). > > But you might be pushing $300 and change to get it all together. > > Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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