[CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

Sun May 15 17:51:26 UTC 2011
Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>

2011/5/15 Ryan Wagoner <rswagoner at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> Hi List,
>>
>> I am looking for 1U firewall hardware, any ideas? Something like that
>> (http://www.applianceshop.eu/index.php/firewalls/opnsense/opnsense-pfsense-ghz-19-appliance-1.html)
>> but at least with 5GBit nics and more memory.
>>
>> --
>> Eero
>
> Supermicro has an Atom D525 with dual onboard Intel Gigabit NICs and
> PCI-E expansion slot.
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE-HF-D525.cfm

thanks!

>
> You have your option of front or back IO case. Links are to the cases
> with high efficiency power supply.
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/503/SC503-200.cfm
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/1U/502/SC502-200.cfm
>
> Just add memory, SSD, and 4 port Intel Gigabit NIC. I'm not sure the
> performance of the Atom handling full 5 Gbps of traffic.

This looks good, but lacks processor power: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=40

--
Eero