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.<smile> 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
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