[TriLUG] soekris 4801

Jason Tower jason at cerient.net
Sat Aug 7 15:06:59 EDT 2004


how much does a complete system cost, including power supply, etc?

On Saturday 07 August 2004 12:57, ljacobs wrote:
> Just a short note to alert people about the Soekris devices
> (http://www.soekris.com) that can be used to build embedded systems.
> I now have several of these systems, about a 5.5" x 8" x .5" metal
> box with a CPU & 128MB RAM on the board, an external power supply and
> either a CF disk or a laptop 2.5" IDE drive connected using an
> adapter kit that Soekris supplies.
>
> These boxes can be used for a variety of applications including VPNs
> or firewalls. I've got mine running OpenBSD 3.5 with CARP. pfsync,
> and pf. They make an excellent failover server/firewall for my
> colocated net of web and database servers. Could also run a
> pass-through/relay version of postfix or sendmail.
>
> Installation requires grokking PXE Boot and more details to follow.
>
> --Len Jacobs
>
>
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