Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-05 Thread Thinker Rix
On 2014-04-05 07:00, Ryan Coleman wrote: And you cannot eliminate three of this with a switch? I don't know any method how a network switch could replace the NICs of my firewall - other than by operating with VLANs. But I do not trust VLANs for this. This is not the correct purpose of

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-05 Thread Adam Thompson
On 14-04-05 12:32 PM, Jim Thompson wrote: This SANS paper has a description of the common attacks against a VLAN segmentation architecture, as well as countermeasures to same. It includes code to demonstrate several of the attacks.

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-04 Thread Thinker Rix
On 2014-04-02 23:24, Ryan Coleman wrote: Wouldn't a layer-3 switch be a good investment in this situation? Put the load on another device instead of, what is for all intents and (definitely) purpose a /thin, light-weight/ piece of hardware? A switch? Not really, since I would like to have the

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-04 Thread Ryan Coleman
And you cannot eliminate three of this with a switch? Sounds like you should look at your design. -- Ryan Coleman On Apr 4, 2014, at 22:59, Thinker Rix thinke...@rocketmail.com wrote: On 2014-04-02 23:24, Ryan Coleman wrote: Wouldn’t a layer-3 switch be a good investment in this

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-03 Thread Dave Riesz
On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Jim Thompson j...@smallworks.com wrote: Yeah, we carried those for a while, then they started coming back, so we carrying it in the store, and are moving the remaining inventory on Amazon. I think we called it the FW-525B. They (also) have RealTek NICs.

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-03 Thread Nenhum_de_Nos
On Wed, April 2, 2014 11:35, Eugen Leitl wrote: Apu.1c http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Embeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.html http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1c.htm in stock, €105.13 a little off, but are those better as home fileserver then the soekris 6501 ? for

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-03 Thread Kendrick Vargas
Might be a little pricey, but I got Lanner to sell me a single unit. With the hard drive mounts, etc., it was about $384 shipped and it's been a champ. I got the 7539 just before they released the 7540. Basically the same unit, but with Ddr3 and a better cpu.

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-03 Thread Richard Lussier
On 2014-04-02 10:59, Jim Pingle wrote: On 4/2/2014 10:35 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Apu.1c http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Embeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.html We've been watching that one for a while. There have been some detailed discussions on the forum about it as

[pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Eugen Leitl
Apu.1c http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Embeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.html http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1c.htm in stock, €105.13 ___ List mailing list List@lists.pfsense.org https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Ryan Coleman
Translated to English: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=autotl=enjs=nprev=_thl=enie=UTF-8u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.heise.de%2Fnewsticker%2Fmeldung%2FEmbeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.htmlact=url — ryan On Apr 2, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: Apu.1c

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Ryan Coleman
That said - This might be what I need. The 2D13 board I have right now is getting pegged pretty hard. On Apr 2, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Ryan Coleman ryanjc...@me.com wrote: Translated to English:

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Thinker Rix
On 2014-04-02 17:35, Eugen Leitl wrote: Apu.1c http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Embeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.html http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1c.htm in stock, €105.13 Unfortunately again only 3 NICs... and Realteks with bad performance. I would love to see such

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 2, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Thinker Rix thinke...@rocketmail.com wrote: On 2014-04-02 17:35, Eugen Leitl wrote: Apu.1c http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Embeddded-Mainboard-mit-x86-CPU-und-Coreboot-2160404.html http://www.pcengines.ch/apu1c.htm in stock, €105.13 Unfortunately

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 2, 2014, at 3:24 PM, Ryan Coleman ryanjc...@me.com wrote: Wouldn’t a layer-3 switch be a good investment in this situation? Put the load on another device instead of, what is for all intents and (definitely) purpose a thin, light-weight piece of hardware? It doesn’t even need to be

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Chris Bagnall
On 2/4/14 9:17 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately again only 3 NICs... and Realteks with bad performance. I would love to see such a board one day with at least 4-8 NICs. On that subject, we've recently been experimenting with these:

Re: [pfSense] successor to ALIX is here

2014-04-02 Thread Jim Thompson
On Apr 2, 2014, at 5:01 PM, Chris Bagnall pfse...@lists.minotaur.cc wrote: On 2/4/14 9:17 pm, Thinker Rix wrote: Unfortunately again only 3 NICs... and Realteks with bad performance. I would love to see such a board one day with at least 4-8 NICs. On that subject, we've recently been