Query : seeking a (low cost & secure) turnkey plug-and-play appliance to report network outages
Joe Hamelin
joe at nethead.com
Sat Nov 19 22:25:42 UTC 2011
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 6:58 AM, A. Chase Turner <chase at stumpy.com> wrote:
> I am seeking a $100 turnkey micro hardware appliance to plug into a LAN
hub...
Why micro? Just get a pile of free for the carting-off old Pentium
machines and run them headless with a BSD. Set them up to heartbeat to a
cacti box. Why buy new when you have a good use for the old stuff that is
going to a dump anyway?
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Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
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