| Eric H. Johnson on 21 Mar 2017 07:37:55 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Low Power Consumption Firewall/Router |
Casey, Do you have any incandescent or fluorescent lights you can convert to LED? A 100 watt fluorescent will draw about 32 watts, an LED will draw about 16. Change a few lights over to LED and you will save your entire 65 watts and then some. :) Regards, Eric I'm looking to reduce my electrical power consumption on my home network and would like some advice. Right now I use an old Pentium III system with 3 NICs running Debian and Shorewall to act as a firewall and router for a DMZ and internal network. This works fine, and has the advantage of being easy for me to administer since I'm so familiar with Debian. (Also Shorewall has great How-to documentation.) The only downside is that old Pentium system drawing 65 watts (headless) 24/7. Would a simple firewall box (e.g.: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833704130 ) be lower power? I'd like to use a low-power system like a Raspberry PI, but the I/O and multiple NICs would cripple it. Any suggestions? -- Casey Bralla Chief Nerd in Residence The NerdWorld Organisation www.NerdWorld.org ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug