[ILUG] firewall

[Philip Creevy]

The few sites I visited seem to suggest that the MUVO used
flash RAM :-(

Here is a link to the supplier, also spec.
EUR449
Note: it is only 10" deep and 1U high.

http://www.ipc2u.de/

MR1021-1000

1U Rackmount Server, VIA C3 1GHz CPU, 256Mb RAM, VGA, LAN, Audio, 4xUSB,
IEEE1394, 40Gb IDE HDD, Slim CD-ROM, 150W Power Supply


On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 12:31, Justin wrote:
> quick question:
> How much is the box going to cast? Interested in something similar my 
> self.
> 
> Justin
> 
> On Jul 27, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Philip Creevy wrote:
> 
> > The general concensus is that 4GB is to big and 512MB would be loads.
> > This box would be headless so no GUI would be needed.
> > I was not planning on running squid on this box.
> >
> >> From the research I did on the MUVO it does use
> > flash and this is causing the supplier a problem
> > as people are breaking them to get the cheap memory.
> >
> > If all logs are lost on power down does this cause any
> > problems on the next startup.
> >
> > I assume RAM disk, RAM drive are the same thing they
> > both use ram to create a virtual drive ???
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 00:34, Niall O Broin wrote:
> >> On Monday 26 July 2004, tiger98 at iol.ie (Philip Creevy) wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am going to use smoothwall to set up a firewall.
> >>> I was planning on using a via mini-itx system with a
> >>> flash drive of about 4GB and a 512MB ram drive.
> >>
> >> Yo don't need anywhere near that much flash for a smoothwall, unless 
> >> you're
> >> planning to run Squid out of flash. Here's a df output from a diskful 
> >> smoothie
> >> I manage:
> >>
> >> Filesystem      Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >> /dev/harddisk4  ext3    7.0G  4.1G  2.9G  59% /
> >> /dev/harddisk1  ext3    7.6M  3.3M  4.3M  43% /boot
> >> /dev/harddisk3  ext3    510M   73M  414M  19% /var/log
> >>
> >> Of the 4.1G in /, 4.0G is /var/squid and /var/log usage is:
> >>
> >> 8.0K    /var/log/dmesg
> >> 324K    /var/log/httpd
> >> 1.6M    /var/log/iptraf
> >> 4.0K    /var/log/lastlog
> >> 16K     /var/log/lost+found
> >> 0       /var/log/maillog
> >> 9.4M    /var/log/messages
> >> 0       /var/log/secure
> >> 19M     /var/log/snort
> >> 0       /var/log/spooler
> >> 27M     /var/log/squid
> >> 20K     /var/log/wtmp
> >>
> >>
> >>> The idea is to have a silent system with no moving parts.
> >>>
> >>> The question is what directory's are changed a lot
> >>
> >> Just had a look on the above smoothie : /etc & /tmp should nearly 
> >> cover it
> >> (besides /var, of course)
> >>
> >>> besides VAR also how much data would be generated
> >>> and how often would they need to be emptyed.
> >>
> >> Make guessstimates from the above.
> >>
> >>> Will I have a problem if there is no swap drive.
> >>
> >> No, as long as you have sufficient RAM. I've 384M on that box, and 
> >> 180M or so
> >> is used for buffer/cache - so 256M would be enough, even WITH squid.
> >>> If VAR is in the ram drive and I turn off the system
> >>> will I loose any system data.
> >>
> >> Yes, yes you will - a smoothie keeps a LOT of system data in /var. 
> >> Best mount
> >> /var/log on the RAMdisk.
> >>
> >>> Note: The flash drive can be got from a MUVO, the muvo sells in 
> >>> peats for
> >>
> >> Is that flash though? I'm pretty sure that the 4GB muvo uses the same 
> >> tiny
> >> hard disk as the iPod mini. Mind you from the noise POV it probably 
> >> hardly
> >> matters - I imagine those disks are rather quiet.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Niall
> > -- 
> > Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie>
> >
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> >
> >
> 
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Philip Creevy <tiger98 at iol.ie>