[olug] single board computers

[neal rauhauser]

Jim wrote:
> Nice to hear someone local has had good luck with the Soekris. I am 
> planning on ordering a NET4801 next week for use as a firewall platform. 
> I have looked at flashdist and OpenSoekris and am looking forward to
> trying to working through the differences with them.

   There are definitely some differences there - the OpenSoekris guy is 
asking for a donation 4801 so he can update, but I'd be tempted to just 
go at it myself - it doesn't look so hard to do when you understand 
vnconfig and have a working system as a model.

   I'm actually sitting here right now puzzling out how to add 
bsd-airtools to the base build ...

> 
> I have been having better luck with pf vs the PIX with some NAT 
> situations I have been in. Plus, when you break out the cost of a PIX vs 
> a Soekris with OpenBSD, it really becomes rather cost effective.
> 
> The only thing I don't like about OBSD based firewalls is the moving 
> parts, the Soekris seems to take care of that.


   You can get ATA flash pretty easy - I have some 2.5" 80 meg flash 
drives around here from when I was building http://mikrotik.com based 
routers - works just fine and you're down to one moving part - the power 
supply fan.


> 
> Other item I have been keeping my eye on is mini-itx board 
> (http://www.mini-itx.com/). I have seen some models with onboard CF 
> slots, that look sort of interesting.
> 
> Jim



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