Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:43:50 -0500 From: "J. Seth Henry" <jshamlet@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mini atx for firewall Message-ID: <200311200943.50666.jshamlet@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20031119200049.7FE6B16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20031119200049.7FE6B16A4DA@hub.freebsd.org>
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Guys, Case Outlet*, and perhaps others by now, have the Travla Flex ATX / mini IT= X=20 case that will accomodate two PCI cards. I have an 933MHz EPIA board with t= wo=20 3c905TX-C NICs, and have seen a substantial improvement in performance over= =20 my old Netgear router.=20 Trust me, the onboard NIC's are crap. If you are building a firewall/router= -=20 get real NIC's. On the other hand, most cable modems are band limited by th= e=20 cable company to about 1.5 to 2Mbps, so a USB ethernet device might not be = a=20 serious limitation - but I would definitely suggest a good NIC for the LAN= =20 side. I've had problems with the rl device on my ITX board "locking up" Regards, Seth Henry *I've done business with them before, and they seem to have fair prices, an= d=20 decent configurations - but other than that, I don't have any relations wit= h=20 them. On Wednesday 19 November 2003 15:00, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org= =20 wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:11:46PM +0100, Nico Meijer wrote: > > Hi Francisco, > > > > >Anyone used a mini ATX machine with FreeBSD? > > > > It's mini ITX and yes, just did one yesterday. Small, quiet and > > beautiful. ;-) > > > > It was a ME6000 (fanless 600Mhz machine): > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=3D794445+0+/usr/local/www/d= b/te > >xt/2003/freebsd-questions/20030928.freebsd-questions > > > > >My primary concern is the network card. Since these small machines only > > >have one PCI slot I will add one card for the internal network and then > > >would need the onboard card to connect to the outside world. > > > > I tried a 3com 3c905 with this box and it wouldn't boot. Putting in a > > RTL8139 worked flawlessly. Since the box won't be doing any 'real' work, > > that's okay with me for now. > > > > HTH... Nico > > I'm using a USB Ethernet adapter for the 'outside' interface on my ME6000, > since I needed the PCI slot for the wireless card. =A0Seems to work just > fine - it's only talking to a cable modem so the fact that the USB > connection only runs at 11Mbps is not a problem. =A0Just another option to > consider.
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