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date: "2009-02-22T05:57:19Z"
title: 'Gratuitous Hardware Imagery: New Firewall and Fille Server'
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<p>I put together a new firewall and a new file server.  The firewall is an
<a href="http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm">ALIX 2d3</a> -- a tiny, low-power x86 SBC with onboard 3xLAN.  The
whole thing runs on 7-20V. Also, there's no heat sink ahe disk is
compact flash, which means no moving parts!</p>

<p>The other machine is a new file server.  It's replacing three older
machines and a half-dozen <a href="http://linux-vserver.org/">Vservers</a>.  The hardware isn't as exotic as
the ALIX, but I do have some pictures:</p>

<p><a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01088.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01088.jpg'/></a>
<a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01091.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01091.jpg'/></a>
<a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01092.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01092.jpg'/></a>
<a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01094.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01094.jpg'/></a>
<a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01096.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01096.jpg'/></a>
<a href='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/1024/dsc01098.jpg'><img src='http://paulduncan.org/files/20090131-raid/320/dsc01098.jpg'/></a></p>