On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:54 -0400, Jean-Paul natola wrote: > > > > VIA C6 MB @ US$ 70. Twin 80 to 500 GB WD SATA on ATACONTROL, GMIRROR, or > > SoftRAID are cheap. HK$ 1,300 1U case & PSU... typically 4 to 6 year > > component > > life - HDD included, fans excluded. IPFW or PF has all one needs for clever > > firewalling. > > > I was thinking a box along these lines, they even look like the barracuda > appliance > > http://www.asaservers.com/showpages.asp?pid=1291# >
More like this: http://www.supermicro.com/index.cfm but I would personally warn against the 1 & 2u versions if they are going anywhere near people. They are so noisy you could think you are standing near a 747 taking off. If it is going in a server room or data centre then it is ideal. There are plenty of used Barracuda devices around out there but be warning buying used means you will never be able to get any support from Barracuda - or purchase updates. This is to protect their reseller network. However they still work fine and you can easily get into them and I imagine it would be fairly trivial to alter the scripts to update Spamassassin and ClamAV using their natural 'free' sources. Personally I've owned a number of Barracuda units over the last few years. They have some issues (which I won't details as this would be useful to spammers wanting to DoS them). I've long since ditched the hardware and put them onto Sun's excellent 'Virtual Box' (not a fan of VMWare) but I would love to be a good enough coder to produce something with Exim as an O/S project that did all the Barracuda could do, but for free. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
