I'd recommend building some Supermicro boxes on the 512L-260B/PDSBM-LN2+ (1u, s775, 946gz) platform. You can build a very nice box and pair it with riser card and a quad port DFE-570TX NIC and come in well under your $1500 budget. If you need exact part numbers, I can get you the ones we use.
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 17:43 +1100, nuffnough wrote: > Hey there. > > My firewalls are getting old, so I thought it would be a great idea to > replace them. I figured that a budget of around $1500 would be more > than adequate, but because no one makes mobos with 5 pci slots > anymore I am struggling to get these under $2800. > > I have requirements for 6 legs plus the carp sync (which I could do > with a usb nowadays, so that means just 6). The rest of the system > is relatively undemanding, so 4 gig RAM is overkill, and it doesn't > require huge CPU grunt either. It would be great if I could fit it > into a small formfactor case to save rackspace, but this isn't worth > $2k to me. > > Please recommend mobo/NIC combo that would fit within the budget! > > TIA > > nuffi > -- James Maurice Shupe | HermeTek Network Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] | *NIX Consulting and Hosting GPG signed mail preferred | http://www.hermetek.com Plain text mail preferred | 1.866.325.6207 Key fingerprint: D484 EACC 9D0F A2A5 5277 C4A8 5704 1987 A938 DF3A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This Email is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521 and is legally privileged. The information contained in this Email is intended only for use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by telephone 1.866.325.6207 and destroy the original message. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
