Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/23/2016 3:15 PM, Warren Young wrote: On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 11/23/2016 2:24 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: DIY based onhttp://www.pcengines.ch/ hardware ... ...tis not suitable for USB power (5V, up to 2.5 amp) I think you mean 2.5*watts* not amps. USB 2.0 and

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/23/2016 02:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: I thought the mdraid software raid drivers supported the intel RST (formerly Matrix) fake raid ? It does, but I believe this behavior is specific to Intel Skylake (and presumably, later) hardware. Matthew has a few details at the URL I included e

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread Warren Young
On Nov 23, 2016, at 3:40 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 11/23/2016 2:24 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> DIY based onhttp://www.pcengines.ch/ hardware ... > > ...tis not suitable for USB power (5V, up to 2.5 amp) I think you mean 2.5 *watts* not amps. USB 2.0 and below are 500 mA @ 5 Vdc max == 2

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/23/2016 2:42 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: Many modern Intel systems come configured for an Intel "RAID" mode. While configured for that mode, the SATA controller changes its PCI ID so that the standard Windows drivers don't bind to it, allowing the Intel RAID drivers to bind to it instead

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/23/2016 02:14 PM, John R Pierce wrote: IF that M.2 PCIe SSD is a NVMe drive, you might need to muck about with drivers or newer kernels to get it working, but it may well work in SATA mode 'out of box'. Just to clarify this: Many modern Intel systems come configured for an Intel "RAID

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/23/2016 2:24 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: DIY based onhttp://www.pcengines.ch/ hardware ... the APU2, which is their current generation board suitable for a router like this, requires 12VDC up to 1 amp, so tis not suitable for USB power (5V, up to 2.5 amp) unless you rig up a USB to 12V DC-

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread Stefan Sticht
Hi, IMHO the best open source solution is this: https://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3020 There were other small but not tiny TP Link routers with w/ OpenWRT in the past with built-in switch. Sth like TP-WR941 Take care, Stefan On 23.11.2016 21:56, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Go to the o

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 23.11.2016 um 21:18 schrieb H : > This is off-topic and the only connection with CentOS is that the laptop will > be running CentOS... > > I am looking for a travel router/firewall for a number of reasons: > > - Protect against outside attacks when outside the office/home not relying on > wh

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/23/2016 2:02 PM, Tony Molloy wrote: precision 15 7510 IntelĀ® Core i5-6300HQ Processor (Quad Core 2.30G that too is a "skylake", latest gen intel CPU, you might have some issues with CentOS and the USB C/Thunderport, and/or USB 3 on those. If it works on Ubuntu, you likely can get i

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 22 November 2016 21:49:52 John R Pierce wrote: > On 11/22/2016 1:14 PM, wwp wrote: > > D800 series (810, etc.), E6500 series (E6500, E6530, etc.), at > > least. > > D series are 10 years or more old. ancient in laptop terms. I > had a D600 for a long time (new in 2003). > > The E6

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 22 November 2016 21:14:15 wwp wrote: > Hello John, > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:55:27 -0800 John R Pierce wrote: > > On 11/22/2016 12:41 PM, wwp wrote: > > > Latitude OK, I run CentOS6/7 on that. > > > > which Latitude? they've probably made 100 different laptops over > > the last coup

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 22 November 2016 20:41:34 wwp wrote: > Hello Tony, > > On Tue, 22 Nov 2016 19:01:18 + Tony Molloy wrote: > > On Tuesday 22 November 2016 18:32:14 Gordon Messmer wrote: > > > On 11/22/2016 07:23 AM, Tony Molloy wrote: > > > > I am looking for a laptop to run CentOS 6/7. My univers

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread John R Pierce
On 11/23/2016 12:56 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: Of course, there are those who will say you should use a raspberry pi for that... a raspberry pi has only one 100baseT ethernet port, and 11N wireless (about 50Mbps effective max throughput on wifi). -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread Mauricio Tavares
Go to the openwrt site and see what replaced the TP-Link TL_WRN702N. The new one has 2 ether ports and can be USB powered. Of course, there are those who will say you should use a raspberry pi for that... On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:18 PM, H wrote: > This is off-topic and the only connection with

[CentOS] Off-Topic: Travel Router and Firewall

2016-11-23 Thread H
This is off-topic and the only connection with CentOS is that the laptop will be running CentOS... I am looking for a travel router/firewall for a number of reasons: - Protect against outside attacks when outside the office/home not relying on whatever protection the laptop/tablet/phone offers

Re: [CentOS] New laptop recomendation

2016-11-23 Thread Michael Duvall
I run Dell M7710 with 32GB, SSDs, and nVidia graphics. It wasn't cheap, but it's blisteringly fast. -- Michael Duvall Concurrent Computer Corporation ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos