Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:16:27 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? Message-ID: <00d301c0b22a$a9f43ba0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <002a01c0b1e9$f805cd40$0e00000a@tomcat>
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But that would violate my premise of not spending more than $1.00 per router. I generally have good luck periodically searching the pile of components down at Wacky Willies where they price the stuff by the pound and move it around with shovels. I've long ago stopped paying anything more than $5 per IDE drive for IDE drives that are under 1GB is size. If your source has prices like that maybe we can talk - unfortunately there's too many people these days that are under the mistaken impression that their old computer gear is actually worth real money. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com -----Original Message----- From: Andrew C. Hornback [mailto:hornback@wireco.net] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:33 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? Ted, An easy fix there would be to throw in a Promise EIDE Max or EIDE Pro card. Basically a 16 bit card that'll allow you to run up to 8.4 Gig drives in a system that wouldn't otherwise support them. Not sure if FreeBSD supports this or not, might want to find out. But, if you're really in need of smaller IDE drives, I may have a source for you... --- Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ted > Mittelstaedt > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 1:01 AM > To: Andrew Hesford; John Telford > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? > > > I've actually found that 486/33's and 486/25's are quite > satisfactory at acting as simple Ethernet-to-Ethernet routers. > > In fact, at my home here I have a 386/25 EISA box with > 2 SMC8013 ethernet cards in it and I can pass 3.5Mbt through > this for hours without trouble. This is with a 10BaseT > nic in a Celeron that can run the Ethernet at 9Mbt if no > other devices are talking. > > The great thing about the 486's is that the CPU's don't have > to be fan-cooled so there's one more failure point gone, > and they use less power, generate less heat, and as a > result last a lot longer. The downside is finding 500Mbt > disk drives for them. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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