Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-11 Thread Shane J Pearson
Hi Joe, On 2006.08.10, at 3:12 PM, Joe wrote: I recommend one of the new VIA EPIA CN-series boards. They are based on the new C7 chips which have AES engine on board...big plus for VPNs. I just bought a EPIA-CN13000. Is the hardware RNG quick with that CPU? Are you able to tell the spee

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-10 Thread Pawel S. Veselov
Hi, dunno if that was mentioned here, but http://www.gnetcanada.com/ makes nice boxes, that are generally laptops with no screens. I have one of their older boxes at P3 level, works just great. Their current boxes are VIA C3(tm)/ VIA Eden(tm) 1.0ghz EBGA embedded processor -- Pawel. Bihlmaie

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-09 Thread Bihlmaier Andreas
I hope this wasn't send already, but living at "the edge" of wireless hotspot is bad. On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0700, Joe wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > >1) Website browsing from approximately 30-50 sers > >2) Checking email for approximately 30-50 users > >3) Using Skype 5-7 Users > >

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-09 Thread Bihlmaier Andreas
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0700, Joe wrote: > Siju George wrote: > > >1) Website browsing from approximately 30-50 sers > >2) Checking email for approximately 30-50 users > >3) Using Skype 5-7 Users > >4) SSH connections to Seervers on the Internet - approx 10 connections > >at a time >

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-09 Thread Joe
Siju George wrote: 1) Website browsing from approximately 30-50 sers 2) Checking email for approximately 30-50 users 3) Using Skype 5-7 Users 4) SSH connections to Seervers on the Internet - approx 10 connections at a time 5) FTP uploads to 2-5 Servers at the same time. It is something like a

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread Siju George
On 8/8/06, Diana Eichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You didn't provide all your requirements for your firewall. How many PPS do you need to support? This will drive what kind of hardware you should get, not just physical size and number of interfaces. diana Thankyou so much Andreas and Zoom

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread openbsd misc
That's true. He didn't write his requirements. I'm handling everything on ramdisks (dnscache from djbdns, squid, log-files) and it's working fine (for a small environment). Soekris are more expensive, but they have advantages... :-) Openbrick could also be an option. I bought some machines here: h

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread Diana Eichert
You didn't provide all your requirements for your firewall. How many PPS do you need to support? This will drive what kind of hardware you should get, not just physical size and number of interfaces. diana

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread z0mbix
The wrap does not support HDD's, CF only. You'll be better off with a soekris: http://www.soekris.com/ Cheers z0mbix On 08/08/06, openbsd misc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, > Hi, > > I would like to know that is the smallest box ( in terms of size ) > that can be used to Install OpenBSD a

Re: Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread openbsd misc
Hello, > Hi, > > I would like to know that is the smallest box ( in terms of size ) > that can be used to Install OpenBSD and used as a firewall. It should > have a hard disk also, and atleast 2 NIC Interfaces. The smallest box I know is a WRAP system (www.pcengines.ch). It's 15x15cm, up to 3 ni

Smallest OpenBSD box

2006-08-08 Thread Siju George
Hi, I would like to know that is the smallest box ( in terms of size ) that can be used to Install OpenBSD and used as a firewall. It should have a hard disk also, and atleast 2 NIC Interfaces. Thankyou so much Kind Regards Siju