On 2014-01-04 15:51 (GMT-0600) David C. Rankin composed:
James Knott wrote:
Actually, it's a good job for any computer that's running all the time. My firewall/router is an old i586 computer running openSUSE 11.4. That's where ai run Dnscache, along with some other services.
+1
Any old box is plenty fast to serve as a firewall/router/dhcpd/bind server.
By implication, those would be trivial additional load to any system that's already running 24/7, which wouldn't require additional oxidation of dead dinosaurs or radioactive waste to keep another older, probably less efficient, PS, CPU & RAM running, and eat another switch port and cable.
You can literally create your firewall/router/dhcpd/bind server out of the spare parts you have laying around.
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