From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 1:23:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31DE537B718 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 01:23:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA40314; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:23:46 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 04:23:43 -0500 (EST) From: Stephen Hovey To: John Telford Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? In-Reply-To: <000501c0b0ff$090addb0$4030e540@johnny2k> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > If the boss said "stop using those old cast offs for FreeBSD > firewalls/routers and buy a name brand" HAHAHA - Thats why we call bosses 'damagement' - they like to spend money even thought they arent the ones that have to get beeped in at 2 am. > What's out there right now that would be worth looking at and avoiding. > Dell, IBM, Compaq ? Processor Celeron, PIII, AMD ? > Thanks in advance, John. Ive found compaq's to be too internally proprietary for upgrading/fixing (maybe thats changed - I havent bought one in 7+ years because I got screwed twice that way) - I found DELLs blew power supplies alot (4 offices with 8 servers, all blew them on an average of once every 4 to 7 months) - that may have changed too. These days I go for cloney clones I can fix and upgrade with redily available parts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message