[pfSense Support] Advice on multi-port Gig ITX or ATX system?

2006-07-07 Thread Robert Carr
I'm looking for advice on putting together a minimal, small-form-factor (closer to Mac Mini form-factor rather than Shuttle PC form-factor) mini-ITX or micro-ATX system with at least three ethernet interfaces -- two of which are Gig-E (ideally 3 are Gig-E) and enough CPU horse-power to switch packe

Re: [pfSense Support] Advice on multi-port Gig ITX or ATX system?

2006-07-07 Thread D. Archibald Smart
I was looking for the exact same thing and here it ishttp://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_34&products_id=84 its pricey, but its got a 3 gigE intel interfaces and a 1 gigahertz processor. you have to install your own memory (512 max) but its got plenty of uumph to run pfse

Re: [pfSense Support] Advice on multi-port Gig ITX or ATX system?

2006-07-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am Fr, 7.07.2006, 21:47, schrieb D. Archibald Smart: > I was looking for the exact same thing and here it is > > http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_34&products_id=84 > > its pricey, but its got a 3 gigE intel interfaces and a 1 gigahertz > processor. you have to install

Re: [pfSense Support] Advice on multi-port Gig ITX or ATX system?

2006-07-07 Thread Robert Carr
--- Rainer Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=22_34&products_id=84 > I doubt this thing has the bus-bandwidth to max out > GB - much less 3x GBit. > It would be interesting to test, though ;-) I know. I don't intend to use it for Gigabit

Re: [pfSense Support] Advice on multi-port Gig ITX or ATX system?

2006-07-07 Thread Bill Marquette
On 7/7/06, Robert Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't know how much better the performance will be, but OpenBSD developers have repeatedly suggested using Gig-E interfaces. Larger on card buffers means less interrupts. Less interrupts means more work done handling packets. Obviously you'l