[91091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Fanless x86 Server Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Sat Jul 1 10:30:03 2006
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 16:29:32 +0200
In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060701095701.11133208@64.7.153.2> (Mike Tancsa's
message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:04:39 -0400")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* Mike Tancsa:
>> > Many mini-itx boxes dont have 2 PCI slots. You might be better going
>> > with a mini-itx solution and then use a small switch and trunk the NIC
>> > to act as a VLAN router.
>>
>>Are there any fanless routers with proper 802.1Q support (with ingress
>>VLAN tag filtering, for instance)?
>
> Not sure exactly what you mean by vlan tag filtering and if you mean
> OSes based on i386 mini-itx boxes or all fanless routers in
> general.
Uhm, I should really clarify that I should have written "switches"
instead of "routers". I hope the tag filtering make more sense in
this context. 8-)
I'd be interested in something that offers more than four Ethernet
plugs per PCI slot, and the only way I know to get that are switches.
But those with 802.1Q tagging and proper VLAN separation are all
rather noisy.
