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To: "Antti Rytsola" <raccoon@dlc.fi>
From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis)
Subject: Re: Router Purchase - the bottom line
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>> My original thinking was that I've seen disk fail more than anything
>> on our FreeBsd servers so that I didn't feel comfortable with the
>> idea of having a box with a disk running as a router.
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>	If I remember right the card is installed in to the machine but it's
>not used by anything, just taking up some power. So why run anything important
>on the machine? Just put some old 386 board on it without harddisks and e.g.
>leave it on the hdd controller failure prompt or something..

Can you even BUY a '386 in the US?

Dennis :-)