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

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Joshua Johnston wrote:

> What I currently use for my setup is a Pentium 100 DEC system running
> the IPCop firewall distribution of Linux which uses IPChains.  It's
> running with 40M of RAM and a 3G drive, both of which seem quite well
> able to handle the load my piddly modem puts on it.  You might be able
> to find a small case at Case Depot, though that won't save you any
> money. Since you're looking for PCI you pretty much limit yourself to
> Pentium grade systems, since a lot of the '486/PCI machines I remember
> were pretty unstable chipsets.
>
> http://www.ipcop.org
> http://www.casedepot.com/proddisp1.asp?category=Standard+Cases&subcatego
> ry=Slim&sidecat=Standard+Cases

If you want cases cheap, go to Jinco/Ever Han Corp.  They're a little
shady, but they have the same selection as everyone else.

Peace...  Sridhar

> 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".
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> mrbill at mrbill.net
> Austin, TX
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