[147816] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Well Lookie Here, Barracuda Networks tries to get me to fall into
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Parr)
Thu Dec 22 16:55:09 2011
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1112221402510.24418@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:54:13 -0500
From: Jeremy Parr <jeremyparr@gmail.com>
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 22 December 2011 14:07, Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org> wrote:
> Presumably, Barracuda's hardware is i386/i686 compatible commodity parts.
> It's probably not at all "useless". Just attach a USB DVD drive or USB
> flash drive, wipe the disk(s) and install your favorite Linux distro.
> It may take some doing to get all/most of the features Barracuda provides
> setup on your own...but if you don't have the time/expertise to do it,
> that's why companies like Barracuda exist.
>
The hardware Barracuda charges you a very pretty penny for is very low end.
$3000 or so that they charge for a mid-level spam filters gets you a single
power supply, single hard disk, and a low end processor.
According to their site it does appear they offer the product as VM image.
This would eliminate the stupid hardware markup and their attempt at
backdating updates.
