Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2013-10-07 Thread Adam McDougall
Finally got around to it, kern/182818. Thanks for the encouragement. On 10/12/12 11:14, Adam McDougall wrote: I did not, but I put it on my list to try to accomplish. On 10/11/12 13:41, Adrian Chadd wrote: Did you ever file a PR for the slow SATA behaviour? Adrian On 11 October 2012

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-13 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
On 12.10.2012 13:12, Rainer Duffner wrote: Does FreeNAS do VLANs? I am not sure if it is available on the graphical interface, but you can get a rootshell to leave the confines of the gui. mata ne, Hendrik signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Hendrik Hasenbein hhase...@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote: On 12.10.2012 13:12, Rainer Duffner wrote: Does FreeNAS do VLANs? I am not sure if it is available on the graphical interface, but you can get a rootshell to leave the confines of the gui. It is, but

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread matt
On 10/11/12 07:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces)

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
11.10.2012 17:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces) -

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 10:48:22 +0300, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 11.10.2012 17:54, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have:

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org wrote: Btw, eSATA is supposed to simply show up as another SATA port in FreeBSD, right? No special driver supported needed for that one? Yep, I have an eSATA hard drive dock, drop the drive in and it is instantly recognised. The

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
On 12.10.2012 11:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point,

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:03:10 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: Interesting one, with only one GigE port though, both PCIe slots would need to be populated to get a second Ethernet and a Wifi port ... As said, it would be better to use a 2nd system (ALIX only uses 5-10W or so)

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 13:03:23 +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: On 12.10.2012 11:03, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 17:05:46 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Adam McDougall
I did not, but I put it on my list to try to accomplish. On 10/11/12 13:41, Adrian Chadd wrote: Did you ever file a PR for the slow SATA behaviour? Adrian On 11 October 2012 09:52, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Michael Reifenberger
recommendation for silent router/fileserver Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Asen Varsanov
On 10/11/2012 04:54 PM, Ulrich Spörlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-12 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 13:51:06 +0200 Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org wrote: For longevity, I'd have a bit more confidence if this was an IvyBridge system ... Now that FreeBSD somewhat supports the Intel HD graphics, I might even slap on XBMC. And yes, living room + low noise is key, aka Wife

Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress, egress interfaces) - some form of wlan interface (I currently

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS,

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Mark Blackman
On 11 Oct 2012, at 16:05, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am Thu, 11 Oct 2012 16:54:53 +0200 schrieb Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org: So how well is networking going to be supported by FreeBSD? Should I just bite the bullet and find out? What about the HP ProLiant

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Ulrich Spörlein u...@freebsd.org wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) -

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x

RE: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- curr...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ulrich Spörlein Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 10:55 AM To: curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver Hey guys, I need

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Guido Falsi
recommendation for silent router/fileserver Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64 CPU (for ZFS, obviously) - 2x GigE (igress

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Adam McDougall
On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system that has been serving as my router, access point, file- and mediaserver for quite some time now. The replacement should have: - amd64

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
Did you ever file a PR for the slow SATA behaviour? Adrian On 11 October 2012 09:52, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: On 10/11/12 12:05, Gary Palmer wrote: On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 04:54:53PM +0200, Ulrich Sp??rlein wrote: Hey guys, I need to replace an aging Pentium IV system

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.10.2012 um 18:52 schrieb Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu: Be wary of the Soekris net6501, […] The Soekris, AFAIK, is an embedded platform. It doesn't surprise me the least that it's not good at I/O. That's the reason why I suggested the HP. At least, it does decent I/O, if you

Re: Buying recommendation for silent router/fileserver

2012-10-11 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Thu, October 11, 2012 14:53, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 11.10.2012 um 18:52 schrieb Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu: Be wary of the Soekris net6501, […] The Soekris, AFAIK, is an embedded platform. It doesn't surprise me the least that it's not good at I/O. I second that. Tried to