[Gloucs] broadband (cheap firewalls)

[Tim Ballam]

On Friday 11 October 2002 11:16, you wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:04, Tim Ballam wrote:
> > Cheep  PCs for firewall
> >
> > This company has a large range of second user PCs and displays at good
> > prices
> >
> > Desktops i think celron 366 for about 50 squid with a hard drive but no
> > nics I think they have some 3Com 100Mbs cards for 7 squid
> >
> > Hemplan Design Ltd
> > Gloucester
> >
> > (01452) 730015
> >
> > P4,Innsworth Technology Pk,
> > Gloucester
> > GL3
>
> Just to add some info:
>
> I went to Hemplan Design Limited the place that was mentioned just now
> for cheap second hand pc's as firewalls, I mentioned I was after just a
> pc for a firewall and he pointed me to the pile of P75's and P100's.
>
> The Pentium 100's are going for £5 +vat and will be ready on Monday
> (they're wiping the hard drives first) as someone bought 10 yesterday
> and cleaned them out. They're 16Mb ram and 1.2Gb HDD.
>
> If you want to practice with a seperate (mail/apache/samba/nfs/halflife
> ..etc) server you could spend just £5 or buy two, make a software RAID
> out of the two hard drives (for practice) and double the ram. They're in
> desktop format so you can pretend to have a rack of servers if you're
> strange.
>
> The Pentium 75's were £2 !! 16mb RAM 800mb HDD, he has some sticks of
> ram for a few quid as you'll probably need 32mb if you're a Smoothwall
> freak like me, otherwise perfect.
>
> The 3com 10/100 cards are actually HP cards which the man said uses the
> 3com chipset. I haven't had a chance to check them to see what Linux
> detects them as but they were only £2 each and I don't doubt he's right.
> I bought 3. Serials for anyone interested say HP J2585B.
>
> Guy
>

What's rong with a rack mount Kit?  
Just stack the computers up and use a KVM it sames a lot of space if that 
sort of thing is a problem.

I'm running SUSE on an intel rackmount server Dual PIII 550's 1Gb ram and 4 
4G 80M SCSI drives.  It's dam fast takes a licking and keeps on ticking.

If anyone is interested I have a DEL power edge server P60 with SCSI
(needs some ram and a cdrom etc) if someone want's it it's theirs FOC.

Tim


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