The only real problem with using this old beastie as a firewall is that it probably pulls somewhere around 200 watts of power, so you could save a ton of money very quickly by simply purchasing an ARM or ATOM based computer at full price and using that for a firewall. It should pay for itself in around 6 months via it's greatly reduced power usage. Brian Cluff On 03/18/2011 12:20 AM, Technomage Hawke wrote: > A PIII 80 Mhz eh? thats a good firewall box. I have one even > older than that still operating here (PII 400Mhz 256 MB ram using > openbsd 4.1). with over 1.5K days in operation, its been very > reliable. so? if anyone wants a firewall box setup using that old > server, I can put the OS in place and setup PF for them. > > -Eric --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss