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How much power does a normal PC use...

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Fiveohhh

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Just was kinda curious how much power does a typical pc draw. I just put up smoothwall on an extra PC, it is only a p3 600, on a p3v4x gf3 ti200 1 hd 2 nics and a cdrom, and curious if its worth it to leave it running all the time or just switch back to my dlink router. Not worth it in the money sense of what it will cost to keep it running(can't imagine it being that much). But more of an opinionated guess i suppose..

Would you rather have a standalone router(ie dlink, linksys, or what have you) or a full pc running smoothwall(just pc no monitor), up and running..
 
Are you doing this for business, or just as a home user? Do you need to filter out certain ports, or deny access to certain software?
If you're a home user, and you're not trying to restrict access to P2P software (or anyhting else), then I think a standalone router/firewall (i.e. dlink, linksys, netgear, etc) should be plenty, and cheaper (as far as initial cost investment and maintenance, plus energy consumption as well).
If it's for business use, then all depends on what you're trying to do.
 
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
i wouldnt worry about it...i have at least 8 machines running 24/7 at my house and my bill isnt that much more
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Are they running with full CPU load? What kinda specs you running?
 
Originally posted by: sharq
Are you doing this for business, or just as a home user? Do you need to filter out certain ports, or deny access to certain software?
If you're a home user, and you're not trying to restrict access to P2P software (or anyhting else), then I think a standalone router/firewall (i.e. dlink, linksys, netgear, etc) should be plenty, and cheaper (as far as initial cost investment and maintenance, plus energy consumption as well).
If it's for business use, then all depends on what you're trying to do.
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its for home use, I allready have both a router and an extra pc, so cost isn't a big deal. basically just seeing what most people would do. If you had a smoothwall box and a router which would you use?
 
lets see...
1. compaq proliant 2500 (dual Ppro200) - file server
1. Intel PI-133 - firewall (debian)
1. Intel PII-266 - mail server (debian)
1. Intel PII-233 - ftp (debian)
1. Intel PIII-650 - web (debian)
1. AMD 2500@3200 gaming rig (XP)
1. AMD Durn 1Ghz - wifes rig (XP)
1. Toshiba laptop - surfing in Media Room (suse)
 
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
lets see...
1. compaq proliant 2500 (dual Ppro200) - file server
1. Intel PI-133 - firewall (debian)
1. Intel PII-266 - mail server (debian)
1. Intel PII-233 - ftp (debian)
1. Intel PIII-650 - web (debian)
1. AMD 2500@3200 gaming rig (XP)
1. AMD Durn 1Ghz - wifes rig (XP)
1. Toshiba laptop - surfing in Media Room (suse)
Click to expand...

out of curiosity why not combine the mailserver web and ftp into one?
 
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
lets see...
1. compaq proliant 2500 (dual Ppro200) - file server
1. Intel PI-133 - firewall (debian)
1. Intel PII-266 - mail server (debian)
1. Intel PII-233 - ftp (debian)
1. Intel PIII-650 - web (debian)
1. AMD 2500@3200 gaming rig (XP)
1. AMD Durn 1Ghz - wifes rig (XP)
1. Toshiba laptop - surfing in Media Room (suse)
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out of curiosity why not combine the mailserver web and ftp into one?
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Why not use one box to do mail, ftp, firewall and web? Slight bit of waste there.
I guess the power bill wont be too much as most of those boxes will be idling.
 
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
Originally posted by: sharq
Are you doing this for business, or just as a home user? Do you need to filter out certain ports, or deny access to certain software?
If you're a home user, and you're not trying to restrict access to P2P software (or anyhting else), then I think a standalone router/firewall (i.e. dlink, linksys, netgear, etc) should be plenty, and cheaper (as far as initial cost investment and maintenance, plus energy consumption as well).
If it's for business use, then all depends on what you're trying to do.
Click to expand...

its for home use, I allready have both a router and an extra pc, so cost isn't a big deal. basically just seeing what most people would do. If you had a smoothwall box and a router which would you use?
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smoothwall all the way. its a stateful firewall
 
think I'll stick with smoothwall hopefully I can find a 133 or so though don't want to have a p3 600 sitting idle that long allready have a dual p3 1.4 that just sits and folds until I use it for testing some php scripts😛
 
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
lets see...
1. compaq proliant 2500 (dual Ppro200) - file server
1. Intel PI-133 - firewall (debian)
1. Intel PII-266 - mail server (debian)
1. Intel PII-233 - ftp (debian)
1. Intel PIII-650 - web (debian)
1. AMD 2500@3200 gaming rig (XP)
1. AMD Durn 1Ghz - wifes rig (XP)
1. Toshiba laptop - surfing in Media Room (suse)
Click to expand...

out of curiosity why not combine the mailserver web and ftp into one?
Click to expand...


if one box goes down it doesnt take any other services with it. besides i have the hardware i might as well use it
 
Originally posted by: txxxx
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
lets see...
1. compaq proliant 2500 (dual Ppro200) - file server
1. Intel PI-133 - firewall (debian)
1. Intel PII-266 - mail server (debian)
1. Intel PII-233 - ftp (debian)
1. Intel PIII-650 - web (debian)
1. AMD 2500@3200 gaming rig (XP)
1. AMD Durn 1Ghz - wifes rig (XP)
1. Toshiba laptop - surfing in Media Room (suse)
Click to expand...

out of curiosity why not combine the mailserver web and ftp into one?
Click to expand...


Why not use one box to do mail, ftp, firewall and web? Slight bit of waste there.
I guess the power bill wont be too much as most of those boxes will be idling.
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you should never run your firewall and any other services on the same machine, that defeats the whole point of isolating the firewall from publically used services.
 
I have the spare hardware too, but since I don't run any of the services like web/ftp/mail I would go with my $10 router 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
any idea how hard it is to get samba setup on smoothwall?
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why whould you want to run samba on the firewall? in any event, you wont be able to. the smoothwall interface is limited. if you want to do that you will need something like clarkconnect or setup your own linux/netfilter/samba box
 
Originally posted by: Need4Speed
Originally posted by: Fiveohhh
any idea how hard it is to get samba setup on smoothwall?
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why whould you want to run samba on the firewall? in any event, you wont be able to. the smoothwall interface is limited. if you want to do that you will need something like clarkconnect or setup your own linux/netfilter/samba box
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just to store some mp3s on the extra HD space, not a big deal😛
 
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