Hi Seth, Any pointers to these Intel Atom boards with dual NICs?? Gigabit or otherwise, I think I am looking for something like that.
On 25 April 2013 11:38, Seth Mos <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 "I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler." _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
