Low-Profile Video Cards?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday December 5, 2001 @10:36PM from the short-enough-to-fit-in-odd-profiled-cases dept.

Catherine Ellerman asks: "I'm after a couple of REALLY low-profile video cards to put in a firewall/router. Motherboards with built in video and networking are available but the reason why I don't really want to go out and buy a new motherboard is because a lot of the processing power would be wasted. Back in my parts store I've a couple of 120Mhz Pentium motherboards that will do the job nicely and a friend of mine helped me source the low-profile NICs (at just over an inch high they're hardly noticeable). All I need now is someone to help me find a couple of low-profile video cards and get the bugs out of the latest kernel."

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i'll second that Re:Buggy kernel... by StandardDeviant · 2001-12-06 03:25 · Score: 2, Interesting

OpenBSD is just a dream to work with for any sort of networking/security task. Working with (i)pf after ip(chains|tables) is like a religious epiphany. It might require a little gear shifting for a person whose previous experience was Linux only, but it's not that hard really (I'm no guru with obsd but I was up and running with a firewall in a couple of days).

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