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

Phil Schilling phils at gcstech.net
Sat Apr 20 20:38:21 CDT 2002


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

Phil
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