Price sounds a bit high. You don't even need the monitor
after the proxie is up and running.
The computer would do the job, but I'd recommend one of the
floppy router setups. The security it tops and you don't
even need a harddrive in the box.
Check out The Linux Router Project or FreeSCO.
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
http://www.freesco.org/
$50 to $75 sounds like a more reasonalbe price.
SCSI hard drives aren't needed, monitor isn't needed after
setup, duel processors won't do anything for you. This is
going to be a proxie machine and none of the goodies are
going to make it worth more to you.
If they don't want to go that low, call any computer shop
and ask about buying someones old tradein. You can usually
find old pentiums single processor machines for the price
this guy is asking you.
Actually a 386 would do the job, but would be slow to boot
up, but once up would do a good job..
A 486 100mhz would be a nice proxie,
And an older pentium 33 Mhz would give you more power than
you'll ever need.
Ron
Ahmad Al-Dosari wrote:
>
> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I was hopping to make the machine act as
> proxy for my 512Kbps connection, and was wondering if it was a good idea or
> not?.
>
> The HP computer has two SCSI drives, and I am not sure but I think that he
> said that it has two processors (The guy is asking for $130 for the machine
> including the monitor... is this a good price?).
>
> thanks
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