At 11:57 AM 12/1/2003, Andreas Mixich wrote:
>Now I have a So370 based Micro-ATX system in a custom case (designed by 
>myself) with two 120mm temp-controled fans, running with 256MB DDR266 and 
>a VIA C3 "Nehemiah" at 1GHz. The CPU is cooled passively. The PSU was 
>modded by a friend of mine. Right now I run a single 120GB harddsik.

I think the problem is we mis-understood your goal.  We've been looking at 
m0n0wall and the like as a firewall, not a general purpose home 
server.  There is almost nothing I can imaging a firewall doing that would 
require a gigahertz processor.  The 133MHz 486 in a net4501 can stay ahead 
of 10 or so T1 lines.

Might I suggest this.  Build two boxes.  One net4501 (or 4801 if you plan 
to do a bunch of crunching on the message texts) and use it as just a 
firewall.  Put your server behind it.  Let APM on your server spin down 
your RAID disks after, say, an hour of no activity.  The Soekris, of 
course, has no moving parts.

I think that would be closer to what you've been describing, and more 
secure to boot.


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