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by Bob Ababurko-2 :: Rate this Message:

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I totally appreciate everybodies comments and I have in fact decided to
pass over the embedded solution.  We just picked up a Sun Netra T105
(440Mhz, 512MB)on ebay.  It was about $135 shipped and have two onboard
NIC's.  I have always like Sun hardware and it works well with OpenBSD,
it is some of the best in quality.  Fits in one rack unit and will be
cheap to grab another to do a failover when the time comes.  I can even
dd the drive to make a disk for the new unit when I implement it.

I understand that running two cheap ones is better than running one
solid state machine.  Plus the horsepower leaves little to work with in
some of these tiny contraptions(soekris comes to mind).  Not to say that
they do not have their place, but I feel that this is the best answer.

-Bob


Re: I have $300

by Ian-22 :: Rate this Message:

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Awesome - good deal. I have a Netra X1 running openbsd and it's rock solid.

Good luck,

-Ian

On 11/30/05, Bob Ababurko <ababurko@...> wrote:

>
>
> I totally appreciate everybodies comments and I have in fact decided to
> pass over the embedded solution.  We just picked up a Sun Netra T105
> (440Mhz, 512MB)on ebay.  It was about $135 shipped and have two onboard
> NIC's.  I have always like Sun hardware and it works well with OpenBSD,
> it is some of the best in quality.  Fits in one rack unit and will be
> cheap to grab another to do a failover when the time comes.  I can even
> dd the drive to make a disk for the new unit when I implement it.
>
> I understand that running two cheap ones is better than running one
> solid state machine.  Plus the horsepower leaves little to work with in
> some of these tiny contraptions(soekris comes to mind).  Not to say that
> they do not have their place, but I feel that this is the best answer.
>
> -Bob