On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:39:09AM +0100, Brian O'Donoghue wrote:
> [ In brief, a separate server is hardly ever necessary for this type of
> work,
> but it may make sense if you have a large traffic volume.]
>>> Nah the company's entire reason for using Linux is that I could setup a box
> to do firewalling,routing, mailserving,[insert something else I can troll
> linux to do], on a rundown p120 w 80mb of ram and a udma hdd that has to be
> run in pio mode because of the ide controller... as opposed to hardware
> firewall/router from eircom 2000 quid... seperate dmz for email (n thousand
> quid more).... and considering there will be at most 15-20 clients on the
> internal Lan... a seperate box costing 2000 for hardware and another 1500
> for mimetype filtering software 'which is what is being pitched' is absolute
> nuttery... especially as the existing Linux box can probably be made to do
> the same job but for 4000 quid less.
It MIGHT be an idea to do the job for 3000-3500 less and buy a nice shiny
new box for the job rather than an admittedly functionality challenged old
p120. However, the p120 should be up to the job, more or less. If this
becomes mission critical you should consider having a standby box as a warm
spare - you'll pick up abox with a spec like yours (or better) for a couple
of hundred quid second hand.
Niall
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