From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 2 22:12:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mentisworks.com (valkery.mentisworks.com [207.227.89.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D56A814D76 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:12:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nathank@mentisworks.com) Received: from [24.29.246.53] (HELO mentisworks.com) by mentisworks.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2b7) with ESMTP id 640953 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2000 00:12:14 -0600 Received: from [192.168.245.111] (HELO mentisworks.com) by mentisworks.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2b9) with ESMTP id 2230017 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 03 Jan 2000 00:12:04 -0600 Message-ID: <38703D1E.14E37458@mentisworks.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 00:09:34 -0600 From: Nathan Kinsman Organization: Mentisworks, LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE hardware specs, advice/experience requested Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Howdy all, I'm putting together some specs for a type of firewall appliance using the eventual released version of FreeBSD 4 (targeting 4.x because I need GCC 2.95.x as core compiler). My current machine specs use the following hardware which I am not yet sure will be well supported. FIC PAG-2130 Micro-ATX motherboard with 2/MB cache (Apollo MVP4 chipset) AMD K6-III/450 processor (2) 10.1GB Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 40 7200 RPM IDE HDDs (mirrored) Poware IM-7500 IDE Hot Swappable IDE RAID device Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ Dual Port NIC (this is recognized as two fxp devices?) I have not been running CURRENT extensively, so I would like to know anyone's experiences with any of the above hardware, or any recommendations on hardware with a better price/performance ratio at a low thermal (chassis is very compact). I was also considering using a NIC from 3COM, or Netgear, or even Kingston, but it seems that the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100+ is currently the best option. I understand the 3C905 may also be good, but it lacks an onboard processor. Anything with better performance and lower CPU utilization then the EtherExpress PRO/100+?? Thanks for any assistance. -- Nathan Kinsman |nathank@mentisworks.com| |http://www.mentisworks.com| Managing Partner / Network Systems Architect, Mentisworks LLC Voice/Fax: | Chicago | +1 312 803-2220 | Sydney | + 61 2 9475 4500 All correspondence should be considered confidential. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message