[CentOS] appliance to embed Centos

Eero Volotinen eero.volotinen at iki.fi
Thu Dec 30 13:25:26 UTC 2010


2010/12/30 Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>:
> On 12/30/2010 07:34 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
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> 2010/12/30 Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>:
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> On 12/29/2010 01:23 AM, Nataraj wrote:
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> On 12/28/2010 09:04 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
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> 2010/12/29 John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>:
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> On 12/28/10 1:55 PM, Nataraj wrote:
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> - fast enough to do openvpn encryption on WAN links ranging from 50mb
> to 100mb
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> THAT is a tough requirement.
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> I was going to recommend the Alix boards.  they run pfSense really
> nicely, and should be able to run a stripped down centos install OK.
> with pfSense, you can boot from a CF card, so no HD at all.
>
> The Alix cards use a 433-500Mhz AMD Geode ultra-low power processor, on
> a 6x6 card.  they use 5 watts fully configured.
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> but, 100Mbit/sec SSL encryption, ouch.    don't know.   you'd probably
> have to benchmark that.
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> you need hardware encryption hardware or core2duo like processor ..
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> Eero
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> Then the Mac mini might be what I need performancewise.  I am also
> considering Dell R210's as I would really like an enterprise solution.
> Anyone have any experience with Habey?
> http://www.habeyusa.com/products.php?id=125#Menu=ChildMenu124 They have
> a wide selection of barebones Intel Atoms, including the 1.8Ghz  Intel
> D525's as well as Pentium 4's with broadcom ethernets and systems with
> up to 6 ethernets.  My sense is that I will still use some of these
> systems for firewall and management functions (i.e. firewalling Dell
> IDRAC6 cards) even if the encryption for the vpn has to run on a faster
> box.  50MB would probably be adequate.
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> Thank you all for your responses.
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> Nataraj
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>
> Hi,
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> We use the following. It has hardware encryption in the EDEN Via processor.
> We were able to get 22 mbits across an ipsec tunnel using AES encryption.
> This more than enough unless you have a DS3 circuit.
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> http://www.acrosser.com/products/detail_id_427.html
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> IE only website :(
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>

http://linitx.com/viewcategory.php?catid=79&pp=79 also supplies
rackmounted firewalls and so on.

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Eero



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