Hardware

Hi all, just wondering if anyone can give me some direction here.  I'm speccing up a box to run m0n0wall with 4 network ports (1 WAN, 3 LAN).  the finished box will be sat in a network cabinet, but it doesn't have to be rack mountable I'm happy with it on a shelf.

I've been looking at this with the 3 Gigabit port expansion module.... but I wanted some reassurance that m0n0wall will work with it.  Also, if anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them

You'll never reach wire speed gigabit on that machine, or anything with PCI. The PCI bus isn't fast enough, you'd need something with PCI-X or PCI-e. For the latter, you may need to run the 1.3 beta for hardware support.

If 200-400 Mb or so is good enough, something like that should suffice. Exactly how much depends on the CPU and chipset of the NIC's.

Some vendors you may want to check for suitable hardware:

http://shopping.hacom.net/catalog/
http://topell.com/
http://linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=4&products_id=909

don't some mini-atx motherboards provide 4 PCI slots?

in any event...why do you need three seperate lan ports?  DMZ?

you might want to check out a company called tyan that has a line of pretty powerful network appliance boards you might want to consider.

http://www.tyan.com/product_network_list.aspx?cpu=99999&rid=2

good luck.