Hello,
I am about to build three Bro machines, and I'm trying to determine what
hardware to buy. These machines will all monitor gigabit ethernet links
and will be running FreeBSD-STABLE.
Here's my first pass:
800 MHz PIII or better
at least 2 64-bit PCI slots
256 MB RAM
3 x 40GB+ ATA100 HD
ATAPI CD-ROM
10/100 Ethernet
2 x SysKonnect SK-9842 SK-NET GE-SX
lame AGP SVGA card
I'm a little bit uncertain about the IDE disk, but the 40GB disks are less
than $200 each -- I can have over 100GB of logging space this way. I'm
normally a SCSI bigot, but lately I'm not sure it's worth it in all
applications.
Are the SysKonnect cards the way to go?
Comments? Suggestions?
Jon