[rescue] Suggestions for a *small form-factor* PC?

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Phil Schilling wrote:

> Scott Newell wrote:
> > 
> > At 07:40 PM 4/20/2002 -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > >I'm looking for something as small as possible, at least a 486,
> > >with 32meg RAM, IDE interface (for cdrom and HD), and at least two
> > >slots for PCI network cards.. Wanna play with IPFilter and various
> > >stuff to explore cheaper alternatives to the NetGear/Linksys "gateway
> > >router" boxes.  I've got a RT314 and love it, but wonder about "rolling
> > >my own".
> > 
> > Why not something like an IPX, LX, or classic?  I guess finding an extra
> > sbus NIC might be a problem.
> > 
> > newell
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> I use SS5's, 10's 20's running NetBSD and ipfilter on over 30 firewalls.  Those
> boxes are as reliable as you can get and beat the hell out of any wintel box.
> IMHO

Yeah! I am currently using a sparcclassic running NetBSD as my
router/firewall. It runs like a charm with just 16MB of RAM. Plus NetBSD
comes with IPfilter and sshd by default. It takes about 1/2 hr to have a
fully configured router from scratch! 

Although I might be a little biased, since I love NetBSD...