You also may want to check into a 'stompbox' and also look up gumstix. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2008 12:52 AM, Nate Duehr <<a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com">nate@natetech.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>On Jan 30, 2008, at 5:57 PM, Sean LeBlanc wrote:<br><br>> So, I was reading an article detailing someone putting together a<br>
> pico-itx<br>> from a barebones kit, and I got to wondering about these. Right now,<br>> it<br>> looks a tad expensive, so I started casting around for what's up with<br>> mini-itx systems.<br><br></div>
I've built a couple using the early EARLY mini-ITX Via boards, bought<br>from vendors I found out later were too high-priced. Heh heh... so I<br>wouldn't recommend them now.<br><br>But the Soekris and others seem to really have come along nicely and<br>
some of the SBC type offerings are cheaper now. Mini-ITX kinda headed<br>off toward the market segment that covered the quiet PC's needed with<br>big CPU's and MPEG-hardware capable video cards for things like MythTV<br>
front-ends, after a while there, and also into the Car PC/Car-puter<br>market segment... and routers and firewalls seemed to go more into the<br>SBC hardware and smaller.<br><br>Typing "tiny linux firewall" into Google found THIS announcement, and<br>
for $220? Not bad...<br><br><a href="http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2319765902.html" target="_blank">http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2319765902.html</a><br><br>Do-it-yourself and the desire to do so, I get... but that thing's<br>
"done and baked" and available for just over $200? It'd be awfully<br>tempting to just get something like that and move on to doing<br>something more interesting than building a firewall... especially with<br>
the feature-set they've already hacked into that thing.<br><br>So in the end, it all depends on what you want to do. I get it if<br>you're dead-set against buying something already baked, but even their<br>hardware and bootstrapping it up with your own copy of Linux and going<br>
to town, wouldn't be too bad a deal.<br><br>This board only has one LAN port, but a friend bought one, and it's<br>working flawlessly for what he's using it for. Damn cheap too, for<br>all that stuff....<br><br>
<a href="http://store.mo-co-so.com/intel-d201gly2-fanelss-mini-itx-motherboard-p-79.html" target="_blank">http://store.mo-co-so.com/intel-d201gly2-fanelss-mini-itx-motherboard-p-79.html</a><br><br>You could add another Ethernet to it, I assume. I haven't hunted that<br>
website for alternatives they might have that would have another<br>Ethernet port so it'd make a better firewall. Just clicked on their<br>motherboard offerings, and apparently they have one Intel that's<br>cheaper still by $10, and the Jetway line. I've seen the Jetways<br>
talked about on some other lists and no serious complaints about them,<br>that I've seen, but that could be Googled too... of course! (GRIN)<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Nate Duehr<br><a href="mailto:nate@natetech.com">nate@natetech.com</a><br>
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