At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:51:46 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Last week I finished installing a small network in a private school :
> one server (an old IBM X225), seventeen desktops (Fujitsu Siemens PIV
> 2.4 GHZ, 512 MB RAM, 40 GB HD), all running CentOS 5.5.
>
> One extra machine is acting as a router, in that it is installed between
> the DSL modem and the network, with two Ethernet cards, and it's taking
> care of DHCP, DNS, NTP and also acts like a proxy (with Squid). It seems
> quite big and noisy and electricity-consuming to me, so I wonder if
> there is any small device that could possibly do the job as good, but
> which would me more adapted : small, solid and cheap (if possible). I
> imagine some tiny box just with a CPU and a small harddisk, a little RAM
> and two network interfaces (one out, one in), where I could install a
> very stripped-down CentOS, and then just forget about it.
>
> So far, I've googled a bit, and I've found two things: 1) Pyramid
> Soekris boards, where I can put something like Pyramid Linux on it. And
> 2) The Linksys WRT54GL, for which there are Linux firmwares like OpenWRT
> and DD-WRT.
>
> Is there anything you could especially recommend for this job? (I'm not
> afraid of getting my hands dirty, BTW :oD)
One *simple* option would be to get a "small" IDE (I assume the existing
router machine is IDE based) SSD (or a 32G Compact Flash card +
IDE adaptor -- see eBay) and replace the IDE hard drive with this and
pull out the case fan (or just unplug its power connector). Remove its
keyboard / mouse / monitor. Much of the noise and power use is the disk
drive and fan (for the disk drive).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
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