Hi Jonathan, The image for the ad0 is for anybody who want to run CF on a regular PC, with a CF-to-IDE adapter. We don't have any products that use these images.
The USB flash drive image, for the da0, is just for testing. Any PC that can boot from a USB drive should be able to these images, inluding ours. We build flash drives that have Ipcop, pfSense and M0n0wall on the same drive, for testing od our boxes. The only images that we do use are for the ad2 drive, secondary IDE drive. These are also useful for people who have the Lex Light systems. We build these images using the Grub boot loader, instead of the FreeBSD boot loader. In our experience, grub is more stable and reliable for booting from compact flash. As far as benchmarking, I am not sure what you are looking for. As for questions on operations, I do think one class of our products, the 1U racks can support 24x7 remote operations. It does not have a fail-over second power supply, though. The "bricks" won't support these remote operations because they are designed for office environments. Many of them are fanless, which may suffer from overheating if placed to field operations. On another note, we are more of a Linux shop, than FreeBSD. If you note carefully on our web site, we only support m0n0wall on some of our products, not pfSense. Sincerely. Bao On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:17:36PM +0200, jonathan gonzalez wrote: > Hi Bao, > > if i understand fine your post i see you are telling the group you sell > specialized "bricks" and you're posting the images for them. > > I think they are awesome but you don't have availabe a comparision > between and also no refer to benchmarking. > > Why i tell this. Let me explain: i have 8 boxes running in parallel and > i need to be sure that they support to be up and running in a 24x7x365 > basis because some of them are 500 km far from my city and they are > giving support to an ISP. Do you think your boxes are prepared to > support this hard life? > > Thanks a lot. > Regards, > > Jonathan > > Bao C. Ha wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have put pfSense images on CF for from the pc hardware with > >a CF-IDE adapter, our Hacom/Lex hardware or the USB flash drive, > >using grub as the boot loader. > > > >These images in the past can be upgraded with the "emrbedded" > >updates. However, for Beta 3, there is no embedded update > >image for "embedded" platform, of which these hardware are > >pretend to be. > > > >1. IBM PC-compatible hardware (CF-IDE primary master). They > >should be used if you put the compactflash on the CF-IDE > >adapter on the primary IDE master. I have just built but not > >tested these, since I don't have the hardware here. > > > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-128-ad0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-256-ad0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-512-ad0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-1gb-ad0.img.gz > > > >2. For Hacom/Lex hardware which boot the CF from the secondary master > >drive. > > > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-128-ad2.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-256-ad2.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-512-ad2.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-1gb-ad2.img.gz > > > >3. For USB flash drive, > > > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-128-da0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-256-da0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-512-da0.img.gz > >http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/pub/pfsense/pfSense-1.0-BETA3-1gb-da0.img.gz > > > >To install them, just do > >zcat pfSense-1.0-BETA3-256-ad0.img.gz | dd of=/dev/da0 bs=16k > > > >Just let me know if there are problems. > > > >Thanks. > >Bao -- Best Regards. Bao C. Ha Hacom OpenBrick Distributor USA http://www.hacom.net voice: (714) 530-8817 fax: (714) 530-8818 8D66 6672 7A9B 6879 85CD 42E0 9F6C 7908 ED95 6B38 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
