Perhaps an ARM would have some difficulties (I don't honestly know about that), but an ATOM would run circles around that ol' thing. ;) -- -Eric 'shubes' On 03/18/2011 01:14 AM, Technomage Hawke wrote: > there is that. > sometimes though, those ARM devices can't handle as much as a full blown monster. there are some times where having a slightly more powerful cpu would be handy. > > -Eric > > On Mar 18, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > >> 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 > --------------------------------------------------- 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