Carson Gaspar wrote:
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> --On Friday, December 01, 2000 3:54 AM +0100 mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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>> ???
>> are you among those who sold their soul to sun or a some similar
>> company?
>> I really prefer Intel!
>> I really have nothing to do with their last-designed boxe that only run
>> slowaris.
>
>
> <sits on hands, counts to ten>
>
> Rather than respond to this flame-bait, I'll ask a relatively on-topic
> question. Does anyone know a vendor of reasonably low-cost (<US$2000),
> rack-mountable computers that use a serial console and run some
> flavour of UNIX? Preferably *BSD, as I want to run IPFILTER (old
> Linux's packet filters are lame, and neither IPTABLES nor the 2.4
> kernel are ready for production at this point). There are many sources
> of x86 boxen, but they all seem to have production-hostile BIOSes that
> require a KVM switch. And yes, I know about the weasel board, but (a)
> it's a hack, and (b) it occupies a slot, which I can't spare in a 1U
> chassis.
I don't recall just what the cost is, but it should be in your ballpark;
Telenet (didn't someone buy them?) at www.tesys.com has a 1U PC, and I
know the have motherboards which support serial console.
I only posted this to the list to see if anyone knew of a reason not to
use telenet's products.
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