Routers, switches, machine room and lockable racks (was Re: [tech] Switchesu)

[Ian McKellar]

On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:52:14PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 05:06:22PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> [...]
> > and having it on non-smelly hardware is a plus. I agree - we should buy 
> > something like a slow Celeron and make it the router. I suppose it could 
> 
> That sounds good. We can probably do it for a fair bit under $500.
> Anything Pentium class would do, but we can't buy a new CPU that
> slow. Maybe an AT Super7 MB to fit our rackmount cases, or we could
> just go for a desktop ATX. (but the case will cost more)

Okay, $50 for a Celeron 366 PPGA, $181.50 for an Asus Asus MEW-L
(http://www.simline.com.au/product.asp?prodid=291) 6 PCI + onboard video,
less than $90 for a ATX case, $150 for 64M DIMM + a random small IDE drive.

That comes to about $470...

Ian