RE: Firewall SBC

["James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>]

> Not that expensive Andy. You can get a NS Geode based SBC (up to
> 300Mhz) for
> around the 250 quid mark and it is low power, no fan required. If
> you check
> with the suppliers, sometimes they have old stock to shift at
reduced
> prices. I picked up a couple of 233Mhz Geode based SBC's for 50 quid
each.
> Both have LAN, sound, LCD etc onboard.
>
> The diskonchip support is generally up to 144Mb and with
> diskonchip you can
> boot from it. The compact flash tends to be implemented as IO
> rather than a
> disk drive that you can boot from. To boot from it, you would need one
of
> those IDE convertors and you are adding to the cost. Saying that,
128Mb of
> compact flash is certainly less than DOC prices.

My costs (inc VAT) so far for my VIA based firewall:
VIA MOBO      ?100
PSU            ?8
2U case      ?35
CF->IDE      ?22.50
32MB CF      ?14
60mm fan      ?10

I had some spares, but approximate prices for other bits below
64MB PC100      ?6
NIC            ?5

The VIA runs a Cyrix C3-800 which sips power and runs with a tiny
fan.  The
cheaper Eden5000 CPU runs fanless.

James H



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