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Supported Hardware

NetBSD/i386 Firewall supports all the hardware that is supported by a standard NetBSD install. That's quite a lot, and the list is updated all the time. For a recent list, please check out the NetBSD web site.

The minimal configuration for a NetBSD/Firewall system requires a 80486 processor, 8M of RAM and about 40M of disk space. A minimum install of NetBSD is 4 MB of RAM on a 80386, but for a busy firewall, we recommend a bit higher than that. Of course, you're free to experiment if you've got a 80386 with 4 MB of RAM.

Here's a short version of the list (this list is copied from here):


Any i386 or better CPU should work - genuine Intel or a compatible such as Cyrix, AMD, or NexGen.

Devices (driver names in parenthesis) supported by NetBSD/i386 include:

 

  • Machine-independent drivers for ISA devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for PCI devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for EISA devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for PCMCIA devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for Cardbus devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for ATA devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for SCSI and ATAPI devices.
  • Machine-independent drivers for USB devices
  • Machine-independent drivers for MII devices (IEEE 802.3 Media Independent Interface, typically used for physical media interfaces for FastEthernet controllers)
  • Machine-independent drivers for MCA devices
  • Standard PC floppy controllers (fdc) and drives (fd)
  • Adaptec 284x VLbus SCSI host adapters (ahc)
  • NCR 53C80 port-mapped and memory-mapped SCSI host adapters (nca)
  • The PC speaker (pcppi and sysbeep)
  • Logitech bus mouse (lms)
  • Microsoft InPort mouse (mms)
  • PS/2 mouse (pms)
  • Joysticks on game ports (joy)
  • MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA and HGC Display Adapters (pccons or wscons). Note: not all of the display adapters supported by NetBSD/i386 will work with X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more information.