A headless PC can easily cost $15USD /month  on your electric bill. A 
Soekris box draws a
fraction of the power.   It adds up.

The hard disk and fans on an old PC are, well, old.   Fans fail, 
eventually.

Jim Wells wrote:

>First my appreciation of Manuel's efforts bringing this project to all of
>us. We have been using the m0n0wall for just a few months and we have been
>fascinated with the ability to connect vpn tunnels to the cisco pix and
>linksys vpn endpoint firewalls. Truly a great product.
>
>I wanted to know if there is any reason not to run the m0n0wall from the
>cdrom with the floppy on a standard pc with 2 nic's opposed to using the
>image version to a hard drive or the flash version. I know the flash version
>is small but we can pickup old Pentium II or III computers for almost
>nothing plus an extra network adapter for less than the cost of the hardware
>for the soekris. I just wanted to get some pro's and con's from some of the
>users on the list.
>
>Thanks
>
>Jim Wells
>
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