Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:57:59 -0500 From: "Andrew C. Hornback" <hornback@wireco.net> To: "John Telford" <j.telford@sympatico.ca> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? Message-ID: <002701c0b1b2$bca50400$0e00000a@tomcat> In-Reply-To: <000c01c0b1a6$ce69edb0$e537e540@johnny2k>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Telford > Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:33 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? > > I have a number of old pentiums but the concern is that the boxes > will be at > remote locations so reliable hardware is a must. Or that at least has an > on-site warranty. These old systems have a lot of mileage on their fans, > hard drives, power supplies and I'd hate to drive 60 miles because a PS > crapped out 2 weeks after installing it. > Perhaps I'll look at some less expensive clones. John... take some simple insurance out on each box. Replace the fans, hard drives and power supplies before deploying them. Should be much cheaper than getting a machine that still has an on-site warranty just to move packets between interfaces. Also, do you really want an outside technician working on your firewall machines? If anything, that's the one machine I wouldn't want anyone touching, simply based on the fact that it's the keystone of the network. Pull that box down, and your network security policy crumbles to dust. > I don't see much written about PicoBSD (runs off a floppy ?) how > reliable/configurable do you find it ? > Thanks, John. I haven't heard that much about PicoBSD, but, I'm sure that it would be worth exploring for a system like this. Only problem I see there is that floppy media may be more prone to failure than HDD media. --- Andy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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