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.<smile>
> 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.<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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