On Sun, April 12, 2009 17:12, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 12.04.2009 um 19:03 schrieb Nenhum_de_Nos: > >> >> On Sun, April 12, 2009 01:57, Mark Slatem wrote: >>> Yup, I can definitely vouch for the Alix. >>> >>> It is generally all we use for our customer deployments. We have one >>> client >>> with 40 branches all using Alix's that connect to a central alix >>> hosted >>> at >>> our datacentre, the branches all come down a private vpn tunnel to >>> establish >>> one big private network, all their infrastructure e.g exchange, AD, >>> SQL >>> etc >>> sit behind the central Alix at the colo. >>> >>> So far not a single problem in over a year of operation, and not one >>> single >>> failure in hardware either.... >>> >>> These things just work......period! >>> >>> Pfsense + Alix = Superb Solution! >> >> great to know, as I'm planning on buying alix or soekris (better >> sata and >> ide support - power pins). >> >> but what you use as disk, flash based cf disks ? I'd like to use >> microdrive as disk, but I'm unable to do so in any freebsd (7.x/8). >> they >> just can't recognize it. openbsd does though. via mini itx and seagate >> microdrive. >> > > > There this here: > http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Microdrive_embedded_installations
great. I have the same seagate ST1.2 8GB, and when I bought it I really though it was going to solve all my problems. I got an ide->CF adapter as well (both from ebay, nothing really fancy). was I wrong ? sure was. I posted the current mailing list (freebsd) quite no answer, nothing on mailing list history and so here I am. all I can say is I get exactly this: http://www.mail-archive.com/support@pfsense.com/msg14933.html, and then the fun is gone. Also I must use current, as my second nic is aue usb and the old usb stack has a bug in sending data through it. well, these are fun (?!) days ... > I use Alix + Flash, so I can't say if it works (wanted to do > Microdrive, but turns out I don't need it - even the Flash-version > does much more than I really need...) as I'd like to move my mail system to this little box (it is just for me anyway), I'd like to have a bit more. so my plans point to soerkis 5501 now (as is much expensive to import here, I may delay this) by the way, congratulations for pfsense, decent firewall (pf) in a decent ui :) thanks, matheus >> I'm kidda new in pfsense for real use (though I read about it long >> time >> ago, but no real use yet), so how to not use all flash writes (how >> much >> time embedded saves flash memory) and how about all security updates >> from >> FreeBSD ? > > > That's a bit of a problem. I always re-flash to update. > But most security-vulnerabilities in FreeBSD don't concern parts that > are in pfSense. > E.g. all the local exploits don't really apply. > > > > cheers, > Rainer > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com > For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
