It's about power consumption and availability. The soekris consumes only 5W or something and will run off of an old car battery for a day or more. There's no point in having a security box that's running but the web/email server is out.
thanks, Philip On 09/05/12 03:24, Izaac wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:20:07AM +0100, Philip wrote: >> I have a net5501 with a 40G HD in it which I used as a home firewall, >> web server and mail server. > >> thanks for any thoughts, Philip > > How about not trying to have your security device be anything but be a > security device? You can buy perfectly good PCs for about $100 to serve > all your mail and file serving needs. > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
