[geeks] Exceedingly low-priced servers at geeks.com

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sat Oct 31 12:47:32 CDT 2009


Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 06:28:04PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Www.untangle.com
>> Do-all box for network protection:
> 
> I thought about putting it on one of my Via C3-800 based thin clients until
> I saw this:
> 
> "We recommend at least a Pentium 4 Processor (or a similar AMD Processor),
> 80 GB hard drive, 2 network cards, and 1 GB of memory."
> 
> Holy crap.  


Yeah, that seems ... excessive.  But I suppose when you consider
everything it does, it's not just a typical firewall-router appliance.


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