[146687] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Sat Nov 19 19:23:17 2011
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 19:22:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <201111200004.pAK04xav073821@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, "A. Chase Turner" <chase@stumpy.com>,
Joe Hamelin <joe@nethead.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
> Subject: Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner <chase@stumpy.com>
> > wrote:
> > > I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into
> > > a LAN hub...
> >
> > Why micro? Just get a pile of free for the carting-off old Pentium
> > machines and run them headless with a BSD. Set them up to heartbeat
> > to a cacti box. Why buy new when you have a good use for the old stuff
> > that is going to a dump anyway?
>
> As long as you're not paying the electric bill. But quite frankly,
> some of the stuff that's been put out over the years is better off in a
> dump.
I find myself pretty surprised that no one I've seen so far has suggested
*these*:
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/16466
They seem directly on target for what Chase is looking for.
Cheers,
-- jra
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