Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Louis V. Lambrecht
Stuart Henderson wrote: On 2008-12-02, nuffnough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey there. My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots a

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-12-02, nuffnough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there. > > My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to > replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more > than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots > anymore I am struggl

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Joseph A Borg
I just bought an Asus P5KPL-C, if you're going really cheap. http://asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=563&l4=0&model=1978&modelmenu=2 The onboard Gbit ethernet is not compatible with OpenBSD, it lacks onboard graphics, but has 4 onboard sata ports available and 1 pata, if you need them. Ha

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 17:43:39 +1100, nuffnough wrote: >Hey there. > >My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to >replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more >than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots >anymore I am struggling

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-02 Thread Jussi Peltola
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 05:43:39PM +1100, nuffnough wrote: > Hey there. > > My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to > replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more > than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots > anymore I am

Re: Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-01 Thread James Shupe
I'd recommend building some Supermicro boxes on the 512L-260B/PDSBM-LN2+ (1u, s775, 946gz) platform. You can build a very nice box and pair it with riser card and a quad port DFE-570TX NIC and come in well under your $1500 budget. If you need exact part numbers, I can get you the ones we use. On T

Hardware recomendations please

2008-12-01 Thread nuffnough
Hey there. My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots anymore I am struggling to get these under $2800. I have requirements for 6 legs p