[olug] Anyone using monowall in a commercial setting?

Dave Thacker dthacker9 at cox.net
Sat Jul 5 02:01:54 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 01 July 2008 11:23:56 Obi-Wan wrote:
> On Monday 23 June 2008, Luke Jr wrote:
> >> On Monday 23 June 2008 13:49:01 Jay Swackhamer wrote:
> >>> Its been running on a Compaq DL360, booted from a CD(The internal SCSI
> >>> controller is dead, no HD), config stored on a floppy that's ejected
> >>> after boot.
> >>
> >> Man, you ought to get some kind of recycling award for that!
> >
> > Compaq DL360 is still new enough to have PCI-Express and DDR2!
>
> Not in this universe.  All Compaq DL360's -- both Gen 1 & Gen 2 --
> use PC133 RAM and old-school PCI slots.  The HP DL360's added
> those new-fangled features somewhere down the road.  I've got
> two G1's in my basement and a buttload of 360's from various
> eras at work.  The G1's & G2's still run P3 CPU's, and are more
> than adequate for most low-end SOHO network firewall duties.
> You can also pick them up for pocket change, even with redundant,
> hot-swap drives, power supplies, and cooling fans.
>
> They also make good white noise generators if you don't install
> the Proliant Support Pack to throttle down the fans.

Quite true.  I'd like to stop that, got a link?

Dave







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