On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 08:46:55AM -0700, Brian Martin wrote: > order of 512M should meet our needs. 4-5 Ethernet NICs are required to > allow multiple ISPs and internal zones. The device will be installed at > a client site, so it needs to have a presentable image rather than look > like a science project.
Two or more ALIX computers? The ones I know about only have 3 ports, but could have two or three more with a USB dongle and a PCIE card. However, that would look kludgy, and 4-5 could turn into 10 ports. A small stack of ALIX machines, wrapped with a presentable wooden box with a few blanks filled with wood blocks allowing for future expansion, might be presentable enough. A wireless access port running OpenWRT or equivalent would have all the ports in one box, but it would not have the memory or the OS flexibility you want. A PC microtower with a 4 port ethernet card (and room for another) might also work; it would need a full height PCIe slot. If you bought a couple of those surplus at ecoBinary, you could have a readily-deployable spare, which may be important for a mission-critical system. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
