CompactPCI-Based BSD Firewalls?

Legend asks: "I am looking into implementing a BSD based firewall at my place of employment. I have been looking at different solutions, from Nokia, and Cisco, but they seem quite expensive, and the Cisco solution is nothing more than a router, with some extra software, and the Nokia, nothing more than a PC, with extra software. I have decided to build my own PC/BSD based firewall, with FreeBSD, or OpenBSD, however, I am looking for the perfect hardware for this project. CompactPCI looks like a great choice, but I am wondering if anyone has run *BSD on this hardware, and if there are any pitfalls to it. CompactPCI seems like it would be the perfect firewall solution, compact flash based boot drives, hot-swappable processors, up to eight PCI slots for NICs." Sounds like a nice idea for an always-on PC appliance. Although we covered some of the issues with BSD Firewalls in an earlier article it would be interesting to know of your thoughts on CompatPCI and how well it can stand up to this kind of use.