Other than frys where would you get server hardware

[JD Austin]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Eric Shubert <ejs at shubes.net> wrote:

> JD Austin wrote:
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> > Laurence J. Peter  - "It's better to have loved and lost than to have to
> > do forty pounds of laundry a week."
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> > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Patrick Jacques
> > <patrick at kinetic-computing.net <mailto:patrick at kinetic-computing.net>>
> > wrote:
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> >     On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:08 PM, Patrick Jacques
> >     <patrick at kinetic-computing.net
> >     <mailto:patrick at kinetic-computing.net>> wrote:
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> >>         Also, which version of smoothwall are you working with?
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> > It is smoothwall version 3.0 sp1.
> > I also tried ipcop but it couldn't see the cdrom it was booting from,
> > pfsense didn't detect the cards either.
> > Mandriva 2009 LiveCD worked just fine.
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> > JD Austin
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> Sometimes (older systems in particular) it helps to use nodma kernel
> option to get installs to recognize a CDRom.
>
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I gave up trying to get smoothwall to compile in the drivers... I eventually
stumbled on another Linux based firewall distribution that works!
Endian Community Firewall: http://efwsupport.com/
I still have to hack in changes to DHCP to deal with setting a tftp server
like I did with smoothwall but it's looking good so far :)

JD
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