Small footprint box
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Did you end up buying the FWA-710? Looks interesting. Did you get pricing on the unit? Would be interested to know.
Thanks
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no… couldn't get through to sales rep there so i got myself nad-2081 http://portwell.com/products/detail.asp?CUSTCHAR1=NAD-2081
nice unit. even though cmb was warning me about marvell chips it works fine. all 4 interfaces were recognized right out of the box. -
covex: Interesting, keep us posted on how that box works out for you.
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ok… i installed this box in my office. using only 2 ports (lan and wan) out of 4 (sk0 sk1 sk2 sk3) at the moment. first test (transfer 40MB file inside vpn from remote site) gives me 4mbps (turbo dsl). if you wanna see something else, let me know what to run.
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looks like these marvell chips are not as bad as people saying :)
even though i found on the net tons of complains about them under *nix and windows mine are working Ok and also i got intel box here running as dc and it has marvell giga chip in there too. so i guess it's not the chip that bad it's just bad implementation of it done by asus and co. -
new update… :)
got wistron cm9 installed in the box. works greate! now my gateway/vpn server aslo acting as an ap.
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Any idea on price?
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i paid ~$1100 for p4 2.8gzh, 512mb, 40gb hdd.
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First I want to apology for offtopic, but I jusg got curios.
it's just bad implementation of it done by asus and co.
What you mean with that?
I have ASUS MB, with marvell giga LAN chip(I buy that in about 3years ago). I used it wit many different OS's and did not got a single mistake from it, even now I'm using that MB.
Never test it with PfSense, but with FreeBSD it OK, it must be the same situation in PfSense. -
maybe you just got lucky :)
try to google marvell and freebsd or pfsense and you'll see how many people having issues with this chip out there. and most of them have asus mobos or something similar.
i'm not saying that asus is bad, i have tens of stations running on different asus mobos, but you have to agree that when it comes to comparing asus mobo and intel mobo i wouldn't bet on asus.plus in my post i said "…i guess it's not the chip that bad it's just bad implementation of it done by asus and co…"
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I don't think that I just got lucky. Biggest part of people who write those … are lazy.
Well enough with offtopics ;)