[wplug] eMachines?

[Wise, Jeremey]

Pentium 133mhz+two 10/100 $7NICs+64MBRAM+ 2-40GB IDE HDD= Linux firewall,
squid, and SAMBA server for six user office with DSL that has worked
flawlessly for over three years. The PIII with 128MB RAM Windows system that
use to be their server ran slower and was less stable. My only regret now is
that the BIOS is so old that it does not like to have blank CDs in the CD
drive and has to have them removed to POST (in the event the small UPS runs
out of power and the system shuts down). Besides that it has been smooth
sailing and shows about 40% CPU average. 

The best part is that at that price I have a cold spare standing by. If that
server totally melted down I just pull the drive and put them in the standby
server.

My $.02 of how to build an SMB.

Jeremey Wise (440)-519-6006
Systems Consultant(CNE,MCSE,CSE)
Agilysys, Inc.
Jeremey.Wise at Agilysys.com
-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of Drew
from Zhrodague
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 2:14 PM
To: WPLUG
Subject: Re: [wplug] eMachines?

> I am looking to set up an inexpensive gateway/firewall in my lab ato CMU.

> Some cmu.misc.market (cmu-private newsgroup) guy is selling an eMachines 2
> GHz Celeron system for $200.  Would it be a mistake for me to use such a
> cheap POS as a linux gateway and fileserver?  The only reason I even
> looked at the ad was because it had a couple peripheral devices I was
> personally interested in (like an internal DVD/CDRW drive).

	Depends on what you want, WalMart has a $200 PC. If you want new, 
go that route. Otherwise, save the trip. I hope the emachines unit is neat 
looking!


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