Documentation is scare for Netstructure appliances and one of the few spec sheets I could find (linked below) contains obvious errors. The rest are mostly press releases and marketing material. The width in the spec sheet is obviously wrong and should be 16.75" or close to it. Surely the power supply and max power consumption are transposed or wrong too. I presume that "solid-state design" means flash storage (no moving parts!) Hopefully that is a compact flash card or something standardized and removable though I'm not betting on it. Given the year this device was announced I'm surprised it uses flash storage but it is possible given the price. It wouldn't be much storage though which would severely restrict the device's logging capacity. I should have this in my hands in about a week and I can't wait to crack it open. There are also traffic shappers and web application servers in the Netstructure line and I'll be on the lookout for some of those for cheap.

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http://www.jimblake.com/Notes/Networking/Intel_3110_3120_3130_datasheet.pdf

Hello friends! I'm starting a little computer history project I think some of you will be interested in. I recently watched a series from The Serial Port on Youtube about the Cobalt Raq and it reignited my interest in late 90's and early 2000's server appliances. The Cobalt line is relatively well known so I went looking to see what else was available around that time and found the Intel Netstructure product line which I was not previously familiar with. I purchased a Netstructure 3110 VPN gateway (very cheap!) to play around with. I don't know what I'll find inside. Maybe I'll find a locked down system that is only of historic interest or maybe I'll find fairly standard x86 hardware I can load NetBSD on. Who know? I can't stand that there so little documentation on these things so I'll be documenting this here and on my new and soon(?) to be revealed personal website. Follow along at #NetStructure3110 if you're interested. I'll post my website when it's ready.
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