[TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for router, dhcpd/named, firewall

Lee elfick at mac.com
Fri Aug 3 08:57:42 EDT 2007


On Aug 2, 2007, at 8:36 PM, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> the mini-atx units I found just now still look like a
> desktop (under the table) machine. I'm looking for something
> the size of a 16 port switch (1.5" high). I don't want
> anyone to think this is a computer and go poking it - I want
> people to thinks it's just another piece of networking
> hardware.

If you are mounting it in a rack you could go with something like this:

http://www.caseoutlet.com/shopexd.asp?id=706

It is probably only an inch or two deeper than a normal size switch,  
it has room for a HD, a PCI card, and it looks to have a mount for a  
front accessible PCMCIA card.

-Lee



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