Comments on: ALIX boards now available

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:41:47 +0000

Pinoyboy: (responding to an old post for the sake of anyone just seeing it, this is the first I noticed the comment) We don’t put out things like “number of users” because that’s a meaningless stat. You may have 1 user who needs gigabit speeds, in which case you’re going to need something much bigger than an ALIX, or 2000 users that only need 1.5 Mbps, in which case an ALIX could suffice. The limits of hardware are in throughput (packets per second), and vary depending on what features you’re using. More info here:
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:38:02 +0000

JM: applianceshop.eu is a big supporter of the project, I would recommend them.
http://www.applianceshop.eu/index.php/firewalls/opnsense.html

By: JM

JM — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:54:16 +0000

Which is the best European reseller of Alix boards?

By: Pinoyboy

Pinoyboy — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 05:33:11 +0000

I am just now looking at these small form factors as options, but one main question I have is – where is the information for NUMBER of users can these devices support for pfSense? Why isn’t there a place for such information? Can someone at least provide a baseline idea on number of users – by using Alix boards? Chris/Scott, please chime in as the experts. Thank you.

By: pfSense Digest » Blog Archive » VLANs now supported on ALIX boards

pfSense Digest » Blog Archive » VLANs now supported on ALIX boards — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:52:11 +0000

[...] The final 1.2 release candidate, coming soon, will have support for VLANs on the vr(4) chipset. This is a common request since it’s the chipset used by ALIX boards. [...]

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:19:55 +0000

Yes, the Atheros CM9 cards support WPA2-PSK.

By: Tobbaccos

Tobbaccos — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:01:59 +0000

Does “5004 MP Atheros 4G / CM9: 802.11a/b/g miniPCI Card” support WPA2-PSK AES or TKIP encryption?

http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=126

Thanks

By: linuxamp

linuxamp — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 16:05:36 +0000

Has anyone had experience with some of the advanced features of PFsense on the Alix boards? I’m particularly interested in using traffic shaping, Snort add-on, and OpenVPN with asymmetric key encryption. I’ll probably be getting the 500Mhz board. Will 500Mhz/256MB RAM be enough?

If anyone would like to share their performance logs I’d be very interested to see those along with a short summary of your services.

By: Albert

Albert — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:05:28 +0000

Oh yeah, I should also mention that pfSense worked fine for me on the ALIX boards I used – the ALIX.2C3.

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:44:24 +0000

Hi Guys, I’ve tried pfSense on a few ALIX boards, still hoping to get the lx AES security block working on it eventually.

As a throwback to good old working hardware, I just installed the latest beta on an intel L440GX server – adaptec SCSI, PIII, 512MB ECC RAM, 2 intel nics – works great on incredibly stable but aging hardware. All I had to do was disable ACPI in the hints file, and the file editor made that a cakewalk.

I thought the webGUI would perform a little faster on this machine with the full install and bulkier (albeit older) processor, so maybe that’s something I can help out with. I’m pretty good with PHP, caching and whatnot. We’ll see, I’m still using training wheels with FreeBSD et al.