Sorry about the repeat. It's beer-thirty here. "L. Besselink" wrote: > > I was just reading about all this and I agree here and if you do starts to > do things big... you will generate money from that... and you can upgrade > your firewall machine. :) Although personally I would prefer to have a new > system as firewall, I think old hardware could fail sooner (but that's > personal choice), because it now is a very central spot in your whole > 'organisation'. > > my 2 cents, > Lennie.
Oh, I dunno - there always seem to be some spare machines around to firewall with. We use Pentium 120s for all our firewalling and web serving and they do just fine; just have to replace the fans occasionally. The web server has been running pretty much continuously for three years in its current (debian) configuration. -- Paul Reavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Design Lead Partner Software, Inc. http://www.partnersoft.com
