> > I decided to replace my home router. Currently I use Compaq Deskpro > > 2000 with OpenBSD 4.0. It's a P100/32MB with a 1G disk, which is all I > > need for my home pf+NAT, DNS, DHCP and SMTP. However, the machine > > itself is noisy and bigger than it should be.
SMTP might not be great on a CF. It might be OK but not sure. net4801 supports 2.5" hard drives but they don't usually last very long unless you add cooling. net4801 and WRAP are really low-power, around 5W or so. I'd try and offload that to a different box myself. > But WRAPs are good too from what I've read here, especially a lot > cheaper and they support up to two MiniPCI slots but, afaik, they don't > support pxeboot. when I tested WRAP against 4801 the WRAP were a little faster on the network (netpipe running on the box itself). I think you may be able to flash a custom bios that can do pxe (they normally just do etherboot). It's not really much trouble to install in other ways (usb-cf or ide-cf on another box) but pxe makes things really easy if you use OpenBSD. If you need a hard drive I'd look elsewhere really... there are all the various VIA EPIA boards, or other motherboards with C3 processors. Thecus n2100 running OpenBSD/armish are also good for this type of thing if you need a hard drive - they work pretty well (lots of similarities to the Zaurus which is a pretty stable architecture for OpenBSD); n2100 aren't silent though, and last time I looked I didn't find the network was running much faster than a WRAP under OpenBSD (testing with netpipe), but you can use a proper disk in them.
