Contributed by jose on from the small-is-beautiful dept.
"Haven't seen this here, but have been offline for some time and search turned up nothing.This looks pretty neat as an alternative to soekris, especially for us europeans, if anyone knows other expandable micro-pc's with multiple network interfaces please post."
"OpenBrick is a very small (180x118x40mm) and light (about 900g) and completely silent open platform which can be used as a micro-server, as a router or as a thin client. It contains a fanless 300 Mhz x86 compatible 300Mhz Geode processor and 128 MB SDRAM.This is actually quite tempting to replace my large, clunky, and slow firewall I use at home.Default OpenBrick systems contain 128 MB SDRAM and a 32MB compact flash.
Options include :
The OpenBrick E is the "entreprise" version of the OpenBrick, based on the VIA C3/Eden platform to provide more CPU power. It includes 3x RJ45 LAN connectors.
- bigger compact flash (up to 640MB)
- 2.5" hard disk (from 10GB to 60GB)
- PCMCIA card (Ethernet, Wireless LAN)
- dual onboard LAN
OpenBrick E is a small ( 220 x 165 x 42 mm ) and light (about 1200 g) and completely silent open platform which can be used as a powerful server, as an advanced router or as an active thin client. It contains a fanless 533 Mhz x86 compatible VIA C3 processor and 256 MB SDRAM. "
http://www.camne.net/obrick.txt (dmesg for obsd 3.1)"
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I'd choose my 400MHz k6-II anyday.
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By Matt Ostiguy () mostiguy####netnumina.com on mailto:mostiguy####netnumina.com
A 400mhz *mobile* k6-2 can consume max 16-17W. A desktop one maxs at 22.7W.
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From living with a router in my living room, it's the power supply that makes most of the noiss (that, and the noisy, but dependable, WD hard drive).
The Transmeta board looked very cool, but it is not ready to go out of the box. For example, many of the boards only had pin headers for RJ-45, keyboard & mouse, and USB connectivity. I don't even know where one would get these connectors with the right pin sockets. I'd rather they were on-board.
Having dual LAN at all is a definite plus, though. This leave the PCI slot open for something else. I'm not sure what I'd use the PCMCIA card for.
I wonder if one could salvage a power supply from an old laptop to use? Of course, there are always the quiet PSUs from PC Power and Cooling.
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I didn't have any suitable resistor at home at the time I "sent my fw to sleep" so I just used 3 standard 1N4148 diodes in series, gave me like 12-0.6*3 or some 10 volts to the fan, it's quiet now :)
except when that biatch seagate logs a nmap -T5 ...
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By Fuper () futurist@directvinternet.com on mailto:futurist@directvinternet.com
iBox with 800 MHz VIA C3 cpu and thin cd-rom
(www.idot.com)
512MB Crucial SDRAM
60G Seagate Barracuda IV IDE drive
SMC Dual port ethernet nic
Total cost was $365, not incl the hard drive, giving me a small filtering router / web server with three ethernet ports --- that fits in a briefcase, draws 20 watts and can run off a 12-volt battery!
The Oct 2nd snapshot of OpenBSD 3.2 installed without a hitch from my home-made cdrom (using floppy32.fs, cdrom32.fs crashed) and recognized all hardware. It now remains to learn enough BSD stuff to get the third ethernet port configured and pf running.
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and make noise, take more power, arent as durable to shock.
i havent noticed any stability issues w/ my cf devices.
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By art () art@openbsd.org on mailto:art@openbsd.org
CF are simply not reliable. We tried many different manufacturers, some had more trouble (Sandisk were the worst), some had less (Kingston was the best), but all of them gave us problems sooner or later.
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Not that it's super important, but I was looking for one of these type boxes for an auto-pc...
-Will
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