From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 23:15:50 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA921065670 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:15:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEF48FC13 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6AE53E80C92; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:15:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:15:49 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20101117231545.GA4206@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Subject: firewall hardware running quasi FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:15:50 -0000 Folks, The weakest (and probably most costly power-wise) link among my three computers is my '98 Kayak that runs pfSense. I just found a computer that runs ATOM and has two NICS ... i need two because of the way things were configured. My Dell server and my AMD "homebrew" that was build out of my prev'ly last new computer are vastly more efficient than my other hardware. Altho the SSD chips are fairly new , I would rather put 8 or 16G of solid state memory rather than have a spinning disk. Maybe I'll buy both and disable one or the o ther. Anybody know if I can buy this in COTS form (cots == "commercial, off-the-shelf). I would rather have the vendor do it right there since they do it by the truckload. Among the few things that hasn't been robotized:) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org/#JTTD