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>> I was just about to ask about this. I've been very happy with Nexcom

>> 1563s as pf firewalls, especially with the disk-on-chip. No moving parts

>> is good. (And thanks misc@ for this recommendation.)

>>

>> But the Nexcoms have only 100Base-T interfaces and now I've got a

>> requirement for gig boxes in a couple of data centers.

>>

>> Any recommendations for carp/pfsync hardware with these specs on each box?

>>

>> - - at least 3 x 1000Base-T (mandatory)

>> - - disk on chip if possible (not mandatory)

>> - - fanless (not mandatory)

>> - - rack-mountable (not manadatory)

>>

>> Any reasonable RAM and CPU speed considered, in the context of pushing

>> traffic at ~100-300 Mbit/s.

>>

>> Or am I better off just buying el cheapo PCs and relying on carp and

>> pfsync for redundancy?

>I have been very pleased with my FWA-9106 from iBASE.

>http://www.ibt.ca/v2/items/fwa9106/index.html

>

>Mine have P4 CPU at 3.2GHz and 1GB of DDR400 (can take up to 4GB)

>NICs are 4 msk (Marvell 8053) and 2 em (Intel  82541) interfaces.

>There is also two PCI slots at the back and I believe a third at the front.

>

These look like an updated version of the embedded machines I bought from

Portwell a few years ago.  (2GHz P4 Celeron, 4 x em + 2 x fxp, CF, etc, etc)