On 12/15/16 12:07, Ryan Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:30:31AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2016-12-15, Aaron Mason <simplersolut...@gmail.com> wrote:
All
I'm looking for a 1U appliance that I can re-purpose into a firewall
using OpenBSD. I've tried the near-free method by using an old Lacie
Ethernet Disk appliance I had lying around, but it turns out the
onboard SATA chipset is toast on this particular unit (it freezes at
CDBOOT when it detects hard drives and the BIOS freezes when I set it
to IDE mode with drives attached, plus it only has one onboard NIC and
one PCI slot, so I can't install another SATA card without removing
the other NIC I installed), so I'm looking for other options that fit
a limited budget.
The most important criteria are that it must be 1U and it must fit
within a 420mm (~16.5") space (for reasons I will explain below). I
have a couple of Sun Netra X1s that meet the need, but I can't push
more than ~60mbps over the onboard FE ports and they run quite hot to
the point of causing kernel panics.
Can you get anything in your price range with a single NIC and USB?
The axe driver seems to work pretty well. I bought a USB GE nic
for under $30 US. It seems to work well on a USB extension cord.
That's what I use for my firewall machine. I haven't tried very hard
but I know it can transfer over 100mb/sec.
Geoff Steckel
