Watchguard XTM 5
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Sticker on back says "WatchGuard XTM 5 series XTM 520.
Fairly nifty little box:
- More or less normal x86 Wintel board inside the box
- 1x 10/100baseT port on the front (Labeled "0")
- 6x 1000baseT ports on the front (Labeled "1" through "6")
- 8P8C modular connector serial console port -- and the BIOS is configured for serial port redirection
- 2x USB ports inside
- motherboard has a single Socket 775 Celeron 440 CPU (not very exciting, but this will turn exciting later on)
- 2x DDR2 DIMM sockets
- Compact Flash port (not sure largest capacity suppported -- The WatchGuard OS is delivered on a 1Gbyte CF card.
- 2x SATA (SATA 2, probably, based on age) ports on motherboard.
- 2x SATA power connectors included on the power supply
- 1x DDR2 PC6400 1Gbyte DIMM
Modifications so far:
- Replaced DIMM with 2x 1Gbyte PC6400 DIMMs from a Dell Optiplex 740 2Gbytes of RAM
- Removed CF card and make a backup image of its contents.
Stuff on order:
- Xeon L5430 processor (4 cores, 2.66GHz clock, 12Mbytes of L2 cache) This is not a socket 775 part, but it is a Socket 771 package. And there are readily available kits for placing a Socket 771 Xeon in a Socket 775 system board.
- Socket 771 CPU -> Socket 775 socket adapter ("Xeon inside" stickers included)
- 4 and 8Gbyte CompactFlash cards