On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:22:55AM -0700, Mehma Sarja wrote: > I've been following the hardware threads comparing embedded versus more > horsepower systems and came to the conclusion that I'd stick with my > embedded Alix board because it is stable and low-power. Recently, > however, I am seeing botnet attempts, reported via OpenDNS, against my > home network. So, I want to run Snort. And here I'd need horsepower. > > I researched an earlier post of "SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPE-H-O Mini ITX Intel > Atom" board and it looks like a good option. Albeit a bit expensive. It > can handle 4 GB RAM. So the question is what kinds of enclosures are > good for this form-factor? I'll probably go with a laptop drive. The > enclosures at my local Fry's all look pretty flimsy and crappy.
Just buy a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101332 or the equivalent unit with frontal Ethernet ports, http://www.thomas-krenn.com/en/server-systems/1u-rack-server/1u-intel-single-cpu/intel-dual-atom-d510-single-cpu-cse513-server.html in case you're using a rack. Notice this isn't ECC memory, but it hasn't bitten me so far. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
