Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-06-07 Thread Chris Buechler
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Volker Kuhlmannhid...@paradise.net.nz wrote: On Tue 02 Jun 2009 02:35:55 NZST +1200, David Burgess wrote: Have a look at these. http://www.soekris.com/lan16x1.htm The 2-port card is low profile Yes, sure. But how do you connect one of those to an ALIX board?

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-06-02 Thread Aarno Aukia
Hi, On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 03:20, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nz wrote: ALIX 2C3 + case. What are my options if I need 4 NICs (not UK, but the options so far have been international)? ALIX 2c3 + case + VLAN capable switch ? -Aarno -- Aarno Aukia +41764000464

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-06-01 Thread David Burgess
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Paul Mansfield it-admin-pfse...@taptu.comwrote: Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Does anyone have experience with adapters to plug a standard PCI card into a mini-PCI slot, if this direction exists? I have some 4-port PCI cards around. Have a look at these.

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-05-31 Thread David Burgess
soekris.com comes to mind. I use a net5501, but I think some of their less expensive boards might have 4 nics. Of course there is a variety of pci cards available that provide 2 or 4 nics as well. On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Volker Kuhlmann list0...@paradise.net.nzwrote: On Sat 14 Feb 2009

[pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware (UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Gavin Spurgeon
Hi List, Quick Question... As the subject says, I'm looking for any hardware suggestions in the UK that are around the £100 mark... The unit does not need 2 be the biggest, most powerful (CPU wise) thing in the world, but I would like it to be a low power (Electricity wise) as possible...

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi Gavin, can you be a little bit more specific? How many NICs, how many traffic? What about extensions/packages would you install? cheers michael 2009/2/13 Gavin Spurgeon gspurg...@dageek.co.uk Hi List, Quick Question... As the subject says, I'm looking for any hardware suggestions in

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schuh
Hi Gavin, hmmm i see no other chance to get this price with this features as take the cheapest PC w Athlon/intel-cpu put 2 or 3 Intel NIC on it. Or take used Hardware..any old pc should do this job good with enough memory. (except 8086/80286/80386/80486 *grin*) Embedded PC's are more

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schuh
Cool we learn every day. :-D 2009/2/13 Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:37:46AM +, Gavin Spurgeon wrote: Hi Michael, can you be a little bit more specific? How many NICs, how many traffic? 2 NICs minimum @ 10/100 minimum This box will be the firewall

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware ( UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Schuh
:-D don't forget: Via-Chipsets (for some people very ugly) Realtek NICS (in most cases) cheers michael 2009/2/13 Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de Michael Schuh schrieb: Cool we learn every day. :-D The Alix can do what? Close to 50 MBps, IIRC. So, for 5 MPs, a used WRAP

Re: [pfSense Support] Recommended pfSense Hardware (UK ~£100) ?

2009-02-13 Thread Gavin Spurgeon
Hi Chris, Chris Bagnall wrote: We use these for quite a few installs where CPU performance is less important than power consumption: http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=176pp=176 You'll need your own CF card and a reader to put pfSense onto it, of course. For a simple 3 interface no