Greg Hewgill ([info]ghewgill) wrote,
2004-06-05 17:47:00
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oh no, not again!

I got home this afternoon and opened up the laptop downstairs and got online. A couple of minutes later, I heard a suspicious <beep> from upstairs. Poof, my net connection was gone.

Turns out the power supply fan in my firewall machine has seized. I guess things got too hot inside and shut down. So, cover off, vacuum dust out, upstairs a/c on, ceiling fan on, and after letting it cool down for a few minutes with the power off, it seems to be stable now.

My firewall machine is a Dell Pentium 90 that is about ten years old. I wonder if I can still get a replacement power supply for that machine.
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[info]pasketti

June 6 2004, 00:57:36 UTC 7 years ago

You could probably buy one of those home firewall routers for less than the price of a power supply.

[info]ghewgill

June 6 2004, 01:05:43 UTC 7 years ago

Well, that machine also does:

  • dns
  • smtp
  • pop3 (internal)
  • ntp
  • ssh gateway
  • http proxy (squid)

and probably other stuff I'm forgetting. I'm not sure I want to rearchitect my network at this point. Besides, I like having full control over the firewall operation and rules using ipfw with FreeBSD. I'll keep that idea in mind if I do find the energy to reorganize everything though.

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[info]ghewgill

June 6 2004, 15:35:32 UTC 7 years ago

Oh that's a good idea. But I suppose with a flash filesystem it wouldn't be appropriate for something like a mail spool due to the continuous disk activity. What about log files? Is it a practical concern that flash memory has a limited number of writes during its lifetime?

[info]equiraptor

June 6 2004, 01:25:50 UTC 7 years ago

It's possible if you can't find a power supply, that you could find something old and slow but still functioning at the Goodwill computer store, or at a place like Discount Electronics...

[info]txdave

June 6 2004, 05:52:00 UTC 7 years ago

What model number Dell? I might be able to find you a power supply

[info]ghewgill

June 6 2004, 06:36:33 UTC 7 years ago

It's a Dell XPS P90, ca. 1994.

[info]luckman

June 8 2004, 03:48:21 UTC 7 years ago

yes, but you have to order it from India now.
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