2010/11/22 Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net>: > 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. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=40 is nice. just install cf card and centos or something on it .. I personally prefer pfsense on my firewall. -- Eero