Seeking advice for purchase of embedded board (maybe net5501)

All is well with me now (at least with this firewall/appliance-thingy, maybe I really should do more homework).

In addition to the net5501-70, largest power supply and lan1641, I also bought a 16GB SanDisk III CF card, maybe a little overkill? Nothing do do about it now, since everything is at my table now :)

Finally, I've decided to run OpenBSD/i386 on it. I'll switch to FreeBSD after I've read a certain amount of manpages, infopages, docpapers and such.

It took me about 12 hours to update the sources with cvsup, and natively compile world and GENERIC kernel. Aragon, have you tried/measured it on FreeBSD?
 
I have net5501-70 one month. It do one job only, router+PF+ddclient.

I install OpenBSD/i386 4.6 for the lastest version of PF. (FreeBSD'PF is not the up-to-dated version)

1 NIC for ISP, direct link, DHCP
1 NIC for my tiny FreeBSD public server, cat5 cross cable
1 NIC for my home private subnet, link to a switch, and then Mac, NAS, printer
1 NIC for my home wifi subnet, direct link to Apple Airport Express


PF for firewall, NAT, Port forwarding, hsfc ALTQ

I install one more copy of OpenBSD in iMac VMWare virtual machine. If I need compile system / kernel,
I do it in iMac and then cp to real net5501-70. I compile openbsd kernel only need 10 min in my iMac
 
plamaiziere said:
On my net5501, around two hours to build the kernel and 8 to do a "make buildworld".
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I suggest you make buildworld / makebuild kernel at faster PC / Mac's VMWare and then make installworld into net5501 via NFS
 
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