Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 22:30:18 -0500 From: Barry Pederson <bp@barryp.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <3F1CAFCA.4070209@barryp.org> In-Reply-To: <20030721195854.P20962@shell.inch.com> References: <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <20021206011334.GB70929@tassie.net.au> <20030721203209.GO1414@starfleet.org.au> <20030721195854.P20962@shell.inch.com>
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Charles Sprickman wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Rudolph Pereira wrote:
>
>
>>Just to drag this thread on a bit further ...
>>
>>I've been looking into these little boxes, thinking I could use one as a
>>firewall/gateway. My one requirement is that it would need to have two
>>PCI slots (one can be low-profile), and although I've seen PCI riser
>>cards that can give me two slots, they've been rare,
> No, but if you find something, please post! I've been searching for
> something that is nice and small yet has more power than say a Soekris box
> and can handle more than one or two ethernet cards.
Another way to go is stick a multi-port ethernet card in the mini-itx's
single PCI slot. You can find dual Intel Pro/100 cards on eBay for
around $30 - I've got one stuck into an EPIA board running FreeBSD 4.8,
runs great as a firewall. Just have to make sure your case can take a
regular-sized PCI card, and not just the low-profiles ones.
Barry
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