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

[Neil L. Little]

You have that right! We have a Cisco MCS 7835 (HP Proliant 1U server) 
and it sounds like a jet plane when it is starting up.

73,
Neil Little, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!

Jim Ray wrote:
> Cool case. I wonder if that Via is fanless? My beef with lots of 1U
> stuff is all the noise.
>
> Cost wise, you're better off with a dedicated appliance if time is worth
> anything.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org <trilug-bounces at trilug.org>
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Fri Aug 03 08:57:42 2007
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] looking for advice for physically small PC for
> router,dhcpd/named, firewall
>
> 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
>