From: Joe (js.listsgmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 12:20:06 CST

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Steve Williams wrote:
> 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
>
>

VIA ITX boards work great.
The ones with the C7 CPU are great, fast, and low power.

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