[dundee] Hardware for a firewall/content filter

[Colin Brough]

gordon dunlop wrote:
> This might interest you Colin, Ebuyer is selling the HP ProLiant 
> Microserver for £237 with free delivery. With HP giving a £100 cash back 
> offer until the end the end of May making it £137, which is a bit of a 
> steal. The form for the cash back offer is on the item's web page and as 
> long as it is sent in before the end of June they will send the money to 
> you. It has only 1 Lan interface but has PCI slots so a network card can 
> be fitted to give 2 Lan interfaces and the power supply is only 200W. 
> Whilst 1GB supplied memory is EEC, non-EEC memory works with the EEC 
> module or solely on non-EEC e.g. 4GB DDR3 1066 Kingston non-EEC, memory 
> quick find no. 229102 (see reviews page). It has 4 internal bays and is 
> certified for Red Hat Enterprise Linux so any major Linux distribution 
> should work on it.
> 
> http://www.ebuyer.com/product/253305
> 
> Gordon

Hey, thanks for the pointer - it is indeed a bit of a steal! Order
placed, arrives on Tuesday - its the prospect of it being a moderately
easy to fiddle with "normal" machine, rather than something a bit more
esoteric, on top of the £100 off, that tipped the balance. Just the
joy of learning iptables ahead! (Seeing as its got the capacity, it'll
be doing content filter stuff but also probably running a mailman
setup too, and will possibly move some NAS type functionality there
too - so may choose to use a generic distro rather than ipcop or
similar.)

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Cheers

Colin

Rev Colin Brough
Minister
Fintry Parish Church of Scotland, Dundee
Scottish Charity Number: SC020742

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Colin Brough                             Colin.Brough at blueyonder.co.uk