Robert Depenbrock wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote:
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>>Robert Rich wrote:
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>>$300+ ain't bad. A Soekris 4801 with all the trimmings is about $350. That's
>>still a heck of a lot cheaper than a Cisco PIX firewall. How large would one
>>of these VIA machines be? They look about the same size, but they require
>>a standard power supply? That would bulk up the case quite a bit, I think.
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>Hi!
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>The Pix 506E has only 2 FE Interfaces (Intel), but an Celeron Class
>Processor. a 506E costs about 700$ last time I checked.
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>It would be rather interesting to do a performance review of a Pix against
>a Soekris or WRAP M0n0wall appliance. (NAT,Static Portfiltering, etc.)
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>regards
>  Robert
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I've got a PD1000 running m0n0 over here, all installs fine - the CPU is 
a 1GHz Centaur (C3-2?), as Linux reckons, and the nics are VIA Rhine 
(vr), surprise.  Boots off a CF-IDE adapter.  It's running in a Travla 
C158 case which was about £70 and has an external "laptop style" PSU.  
You can get 1U boxes for the EPIA range, and I even got a 1U box that 
can hold 2 EPIA boards - better density than a blade :)

All in all, cost was about £300ish, and that included 256MB and a 4-port 
server card for a total of 6 interfaces - sweet, especially now I can 
get it to work thanks to Jesse's rules ;)

Another board I noticed was the EPIA MII, a 1.2GHz CPU with an 
PCB-mounted CardBus slot, wonder how good that would be for a wireless 
card as an access point with no external aerial?

It would be very interesting to see one of these EPIA's up against a 
PIX.  The only reference I got at the mo is routing between direct lans 
copying files with samba, yes, it was fast (subjectively).

Kev