From: Steve Williams (stevecelineandsteve.com)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 17:31:05 CST

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Hi,

I have an opportunity to build a system for someone that wants an
OpenBSD firewall. Historically, I have just installed it on whatever PC
people have had hanging around, but I put a big caveat on my proposal
that I might have to buy nic's and controller cards if the hardware they
provided didn't work. So, now they want me to supply the hardware :-).

This is a light duty firewall, going on a DSL line (2.5 M). I will be
running spamd and perhaps squid (transparant caching web proxy), so the
demands will not be much on the hardware.

I'd like a (modern) motherboard that "just works". Audio/video is
completely irrelevant (it will be running headless). It seems like most
motherboards come with onboard ethernet, and it would be nice if that
worked.

I am processor agnostic. We have a mix of Intel & AMD (and one sparc64)
at work.

What is a solid motherboard where the onboard ethernet will "just work",
with a disk controller that will "just work". I don't really need RAID,
but if it had it & I could use it, I likely would.

Thanks for any input.

Cheers,
Steve Williams

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