Re: Low end machines for Firewall/IDS

From: Mike Dresser (mdresser@windsormachine.com)
Date: 12/02/02

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From: Mike Dresser <mdresser@windsormachine.com>
To: "ALBEE,RUSSELL. S FC2 (CV63 CS5)" <ALBEER@kitty-hawk.navy.mil>

    On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, ALBEE,RUSSELL. S FC2 (CV63 CS5) wrote:

    > Does anybody know of any good locations online to purchase old 486 machines
    > or low end Pentium machines for use as a Firewall and/or IDS? I've tried
    > searching on google and just keeping getting links to Pentium 4 computers.
    > I will be using either a Linux or BSD flavor on these machines.

    How much are you looking to spend, anyways? You can put together a new
    Celeron 1.7 or Athlon XP 1.7+ system for under 250 dollars nowadays.
    (case - 40, mb and cpu 140-150, 128 meg memory - 35, 20 gig hard drive -
    40-50)

    Accessmicro.com will even build you a barebones system without a hard
    drive, for 145 or so, with a Duron 900, about 170 with an athlon.

    Mike

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