Re: Req: Recommendation on VIA EPIA Boards/Small Dual Lan units

[Diana Eichert <deichert@wrench.com>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 cmturner2@alltel.net wrote:

> I'm looking to buy/assemble a "cheap" small, hopefully fanless, machine
> for an obsd project of spurious "real" value other than to satisfy my
> current network tinkering needs. I'm looking at the VIA EPIA-6000 board
> since it has dual lan and would thus be useful for actual
> firewall/router playing around, but figured someone might have some
> additional insight on how (un)well obsd works with this board, or even
> alternates that might be cheaper/better (not necessarily both) for me
> long-term.
> 
> I normally wouldn't have even brought it up except for a few recent
> mentions of how well obsd works on the VIA C3 CPU's, which prompted some
> (un)healthy looking into available hardware options after a fresh
> paycheck. :)

please wrap lines when you post here.

if you want to play around via C3 for firewall, look to see what VIA 
boards have support for serial console re-direct.