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Fred Weston wrote: > Andreas, > > Based on what you are asking for, I think m0n0BSD would be a good > choice. You can run the BSD kernel and whatever services you want on an > old PC, or even a Soekris if you want something appliance like that > doesn't make any noise. Manuel suggested using Webmin, which would give > you a decent web administration utility. If that doesn't work for you, > then you're just too hard to please. :-) Ah, the last mail was, accidentaly, a private reply. Okay, since it seems I might unsubscribe (sorry, sad to say this, but why stay ?) I will try to clarify my needs. I was a bit detailed in my first post, but somehow that got left out. When I felt a need for a router/firewall at home I checked out the Soekris, but back then only the low-end version existed and my request on the mailing-list provoked even flames :-( The EPIA-CL (Mini-ITX with dual LAN) did not exist back then. So I decided to cook my own. (As always) Since this is for my home I have no desire to run a seperate firewall, the only solution I would accept is an embedded Firewall system on a PCI card but that is very expensive. (300 Euro, http://www.snapgear.com/pci630.html) Now I have a So370 based Micro-ATX system in a custom case (designed by myself) with two 120mm temp-controled fans, running with 256MB DDR266 and a VIA C3 "Nehemiah" at 1GHz. The CPU is cooled passively. The PSU was modded by a friend of mine. Right now I run a single 120GB harddsik. I plan to add a S-ATA Raid controller as soon as I have better overview of their performance. This also allows to run a 4th disk as JBOD and use it as HotSwap backup-solution in a 5.25 frame. It couldn't be more perfect :-) ! The final goal is to run system-software off of a IDE-Flash, while running $HOMEs and other storage from RAID. This might look strange but this is my HomeServer and I am not turning it off, even when I go on vacation. However, /then/ I only need the harddisks run twice a day for fetchmail. Should help to save power, produce less heat (why run an unused RAID-5 over two weeks ?) and, well, I admit, its fun to try new things. As long as I have searched for appropriate hardware as long I am going to search for appropriate software, it seems. I was very fascinated by m0n0wall. I would love to run *BSD on that box, and have an integrated package. m0n0wall does much better than Webmin, and is very sweet, so I had a hope, that some people also like to combine it with more 'aggressive' services. Anyway, thanks for all the replies. I am going to find something based on FreeBSD (OpenBSD did not inastall on my 120GB hda, whereas FreeBSD 5.1 did, partially, and I might upgrade to a dual C5P CPU (dual RNG, AES in hardware, peak: 12.5 Gb/s) http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1354023,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 and OpenBSD is not SMP. I hope nobody is angry with me regarding this post, which is a little off-topic, I know you guys are hardware-enthusiasts as much as me and I believe, that many of you will like to hear about other solutions. Especially the last link might come interesting, since it shows a very nice solution, that offers most of the "embedded" advantages but with more horsepower and the possibility to add generic hardware. Just look at that dual C5P Mini-ITX board with PC400, USB, Firewire and dual LAN. :) I hope I could shed a little light on my 'exotic' needs. -- Bye, Andreas |