* Maciej Milewski <m...@dat.pl> [2011-07-01 01:15:15 +0200]: > Hi Chris, > > Case for Alix shouldn't be a problem. Many universal ones may be used > (although they may be larger than your needs f.ex. external ones with > integrated antennas) > I took the PS, aluminium case for home/office use and board from one seller > and > it all fits and works fine. You may even make your own case if you want :) > Usually Alix boards have wide range of PS support. F.ex. Alix.2/6 input > voltage is 7 to 20V DC. I tried many Linksys/Netgear 12V/1A PS and they > worked > fine. The only thing which may be different is power jack, sometimes they > make > different diameters for different routers. AFAIR Alix use 2,5mm. The CF cards > are not a problem on the market. You'll need to select if you want to use > pfsense or normal FreeBSD(NanoBSD builds). In /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd > you > should find example build for PCEngines board. NanoBSD with Alix is very nice > connection. You may create two root slices/parts, config and data. This eases > upgrade procedure - you'll always have old working system and the new one. > Root is mounted in read-only mode so eventual power loss will not be a > problem. > Taking Alix(or any x86 compatible board) and having i386 buildhost > environment > you may install packages from ports to your prepared image. > > For router you may use ARM or MIPS boards too but they need to be crossbuilt > and may need more work to setup them and of course their prices may be higher > than Alix. You should find some info about them on the wiki.freebsd.org
Excellent suggested, worthy enough to hang on to. I've made note of your suggestions and will keep it handy for future reference. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
