On 25-4-2013 10:30, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > What I meant with high specs is to do with CPU, Disk Storage and RAM. > Why? For instance in the particular case I went to address, there was > a DDoS issue. Some app installed on one of the computers on that LAN > was sending millions of HTTP GET requests to www.ffssc.net. In just > about 5 minutes, my squid log file had grown to 50MB! If this was a > small appliance, I am thinking it would have given up on service in no > time.. So high specs for me means something like 256MB or more > storage, 1GHz+ CPU and say, 1GB+ RAM - but still small enough in size > to fit into my backpack. That would be my Swiss Knife for network > troubleshooting when needed
Find a nice Intel Atom board with dual gigabit nics, vlans are optional but should atleast suffice for a quick replacement. We recommend Intel SSD drives, these have failed the least for me atleast. A 40GB thingy should suffice for pfSense easily. There are quite a few smallish portable cases for the mini itx boards. Cheers, Seth _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
