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

[Joshua Johnston]

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

- Josh

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org] On
Behalf Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 8:40 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org; rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] Suggestions for a *small form-factor* PC?

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

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX