Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-17 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-11-17, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Maurice Janssen wrote: > >> >http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ >> >https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html >> >> Does anyone know the dimensions of it? Can't find them on the website > >

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Maurice Janssen wrote: > >http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ > >https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html > > Does anyone know the dimensions of it? Can't find them on the website It's an Axiomtek NA-320FL, and according to the data

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Maurice Janssen
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:33:28AM +0100, Pierre-Emmanuel Andr? wrote: >At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: >http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ >https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html > >Works very fine. Does anyone know the dime

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-11-16, Forman, Jeffrey wrote: > I mainly bought the machine because I liked being able to throw a cheap > huge PATA hard drive in there, and not be concerned with flash's supposed > write-limit, or mucking about with read-only filesystem, among other things. I've used flash quite a lot in

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Peter J. Philipp
Am 16.11.2012 um 20:11 schrieb Russell Garrison : > I can also vouch for the Lanner, but make sure you get the fanless > model. I bought the ones with fans to go into a noisy server room, but > they spent a week or two in testing on my desk. People walking by kept > thinking that a faucet was runn

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Forman, Jeffrey wrote: > I mainly bought the machine because I liked being able to throw a cheap > huge PATA hard drive in there, and not be concerned with flash's supposed > write-limit, or mucking about with read-only filesystem, among other things. Funny. I'd rather throw in a flash than a f

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Forman, Jeffrey
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Michel Blais wrote: > > I now use Lanner FW-7535 instead. Cost a little more but like them better > and Lanner service is great. Atom board with case + 6 Intel NIC. I think > those are also 82574L so not the fastest intel NIC but for low budget > firewall, those ar

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel André
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:06:54PM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote: > 2012/11/16 Pierre-Emmanuel André : > > At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: > > http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ > > https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html > > V

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Chris McGee wrote: > The Soekris Net4x series uses an anonymous ethernet chip that you can't > quite read in the photos and it's not listed in the spec sheet. I am > pretty sure the Net4501-30 has a "VM552RR" chip, but I don't know who makes That's just the transformer. The net45xx and net48xx

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Jiri B
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:30:26PM -0600, Axton wrote: > > The supermicro Atom based machines are nice. I am a fan of the remote > management interface, which allows power cycle, KVM over IP, virtual media, > etc. Really? KVM over IP on Supermicro doesn't work from OpenBSD. Serial console redirec

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Martin Schröder
2012/11/16 Pierre-Emmanuel André : > At work, i'm using a bytemine appliance: > http://blog.bytemine.net/2012/08/15/bytemine-appliance-6a16e/ > https://shop.bytemine.net/startseitenprodukte/bytemine-appliance-6a16e.html Very nice. What do you use for mass storage? The industrial compact flash opti

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-16 Thread Pierre-Emmanuel André
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 04:47:53PM -0500, Chris McGee wrote: > Hi guys- > > I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least > 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a > decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. Th

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Axton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Chris McGee wrote: > Hi guys- > > I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least > 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a > decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. The > fire

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Chris McGee
Thanks for all the feedback! I really like the look of the Soekris boards. The Soekris website isn't that helpful, but I jotted down all my research in case someone else wanted to look at it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqjAAj_-IRQkdEs3TWNkZnZrUGs0S0FjYnRYQjFJZlE (That's not mea

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Daniel Melameth
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Chris McGee wrote: > I am hunting for a low-power firewall for my home network. For at least > 10 years, whenever my firewall hardware has started to die, I've grabbed a > decommissioned game PC, added a few NIC's, and put OpenBSD on it. The > firewall's current

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread James Shupe
On 11/15/12 4:06 PM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Have Soekris put out a Gbit NIC platform yet? I stopped using them because > of this reason. > > -Joel > Yeah, the 6501 series is awesome. A bit pricy, but definitely something I recommend. On another note, I use some old Wyse WT941GL machines I

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Have Soekris put out a Gbit NIC platform yet? I stopped using them because of this reason. -Joel On 16 November 2012 11:02, Justin Mayes wrote: > Check out http://soekris.com/. I have a low end one and it works great. > Little costly though. > > Justin Mayes > > > -Original Message- >

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Michel Blais
I have one Jetway board in production with 5.0 with intel daughterboard work fine but it's only 3 intel NIC so would have to use one realtek. I didn't try realtek NIC with lot of traffic. I now use Lanner FW-7535 instead. Cost a little more but like them better and Lanner service is great. Ato

Re: Hardware hunting

2012-11-15 Thread Justin Mayes
Check out http://soekris.com/. I have a low end one and it works great. Little costly though. Justin Mayes  -Original Message- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org [mailto:owner-m...@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Chris McGee Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 3:48 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Har