ironsystems.com has great 1U half length P4 ~2.4GHz/256mb/80gb boxes for like $800, have a ton of them at my workplace for DNS servers, dhcp, etc etc. Dual fxp cards and room for an additional pci card, dont know how fast the motherboard is in terms of keeping up with say a 4 port 100mb card, but the price is right and the boxes are rock solid, we run openbsd on all of them and have never had a problem, not a minute of downtime in the year or so I've been there.
Kinda OT, but good info for someone possibly :) -Ian On 9/9/05, Chris Buechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dny wrote: > > >it's quite small hardware and doesnt take too much space. > > > >i think, it's pretty good candidate to put into rack > >rather than other expensive rackmounted hardware... > > > > > it's not going to work, as Scott said, but...really, you're kidding, > right? :) "Expensive" rack mounted hardware? A base mini is $499, and > you'd have to add USB NIC's to that. You could get a 1U rack mountable > box with 3 NIC's that'll push 100 Mb at wire speed for that price, and > not deal with something that isn't rack mountable and has USB NIC's > hanging all over the place. Or build a mini ITX box for cheaper, with > internal NIC's. > > I have a mini and love it, but I'd never consider using one for a > firewall. > > -cmb > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
