[Gllug] Firewall hardware

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:42, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 13:43, Garry Heaton wrote:
> > Any suggestions for a cheap, small, compact box for turning into an OpenBSD
> > or IPtables firewall? Are there advantages of having routing and firewalling
> > handled separately within a small office network or is it overkill?
> 
> Firewalls with moving parts other than the odd fan always make me
> nervous.

I've always found fans to be one of the more problematic bits actually.
I've had two separate incidents of inexplicably crashing servers that
turned out to be intermittent fan problems causing CPU overheat.

Mike.

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