On 8/16/05, Jumbz Tayamen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or how about smoothwall anybody tried it? its got ids,firewall,vpn and > web management interface in it, how about a diy box, with dual > 10/100/1000 lan, in a micro-atx case, get two of those, so now you have > redundancy, cost-wise low,(since everything needed is on-board) > mobo+ide-drive+case, bout 14k on the high side na siguro.
OTOH, that's also a power guzzler. The current generation of PC chips doesn't look really promising in terms of power consumption- you're still looking at a nominal power consumption above 100W, as a PC would have a lot of moving parts to power. Not too nice when the electricity bill arrives by your door. Another thing - unless you'll get a mobo with dedicated 10/100/1000BaseT ethernet on a dedicated bus (e.g. CSA), 64-bit PCI, or PCI-X (incidentally - it's easier to find these parts on expensive server boards) - you'll be punishing your PCI bus as running an IDS would require that network interface cards run in promiscuous mode. Abuse of this nature will deteriorate your hardware faster. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
