Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Tim, > IIRC, there's a problem with wearing out CF cards after prolonged use > (1E6 writes or so). Whether that's better or worse than the average > failure rate of a hard drive for this particular scenario is for you to > decide - just a reminder of the limitations of flash memory as dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-10 Thread Tim
James wrote: Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. OK, I found some for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello James, > If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there > an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is > redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. -- Neil Bothwick I'm warning you! One step closer and I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread James R.Campbell
On Thu Aug 9 13:14 , James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Stefan G. Weichinger xunil.at> writes: > > > >> WRAP-boards have up to 3 fast-ethernet-ports, but if you have to use >> your boxes, it will work out fine with a 1G hdd. > >Hm, > >If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
James schrieb: Hm, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? I don't know your location so the sources I would check for supplies very likely won't help you: I am in Austria/Europe. PC engine

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Chris Egger
There does exist ide to CF adaptors that will plug right into the motherboard ide slot and they are relatively cheep. I think I got mine at newegg. I know this is a gentoo list, but IPCop or PFsense has a great firewall product that can be easily adapted to a CF Card. I believe there are in