[146689] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Sat Nov 19 19:31:41 2011
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:30:39 -0800
From: Roy <r.engehausen@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <201111200004.pAK04xav073821@aurora.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11/19/2011 4:04 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
>> 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.
>
> ... JG
They also have moving parts like disk drives and fans that will wear out
and need replacement.
