[cobalt-users] RE: Raq 4(?) VoIP OEM? Firewall BOX?

["Nicolae" <nicolaep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am not sure what software he mentioned it was but I am not
sure if it was SUN designed and such.  I emailed you offlist
and wanted to find out what I have... I couldn't get in
to see the CPU 300 or close to 400+ and figure out if indeed
is a RAQ 3 or RAQ 4.  

Nice to have the extra card there for whatever reason that might
be, but I doubt I can use that with the RAQ 4 as a web server.

Maybe having a socalled; Velociraptors? system as a firewall 
with the RAQ, nice but if that's all is good for I can load
SmoothWall (http://www.smoothwall.com) on a $300 1U rackmount
and use that as a firewall.

I paid 799$ on ebay for it and it says:
"COBALT RAQ 4 256/20G HD"
"COBALT RAQ 4 450MHZ,256 RAM,20G HD"
THIS UNIT IS USED BUT WORKS GRAET! WE HAVE RESTORED THE SOFTWARE 
AND GIVE YOU A 15 DAY D.O.A WARRANTY.SHIPPING COST IS $45.00 
UPS GROUND WITHIN THE 48 STATES.

They were local and picked it up.  They seem to have a big store
small, hard to find but they had other 1U stuff, CISCO, cages
and other Qubes, RAQ2 (lots) and some other stuff.. They had
mine in the back...

I'm sure they better know what what they say and what they sell
because they can loose on lots of they are wrong.

I personally have come acrossed incidents where a company 
sells GForce video cards with an OEM chip in them.  No one
would know unless the guys combs the card very closely and
reads all the labels and such.  They'd get caught with their
pants down and refund or make up some story.


--
EnigmaBiz.Com
Nicolae Popescu Jr: http://www.enigmabiz.com
Enigma Networks & Design - 888-668-8758
2560 E. Chapman Ave Suite 154 / Orange / CA / 92689


> I'd like to see that software - I used to work for them and I 
> never heard of
> it so I'd say that was Bull.  I think it is more likely that 
> you have either
> a Phoenix Firewall base unit or a Velociraptor base unit - no 
> problems there
> email me personally at gavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Model 
> Number and I'll
> ask a colleague. In fact a quick check confirms to me that it 
> is almost
> certainly a Velociraptor box possibly as when Semantec bought 
> Axent Cobalt
> then did an OEM deal and they became yellow boxes so I 
> suspect the offed
> some of the leftover boxes and couldn't be bothered to open 
> up the box and
> remove the extra NIC it is probably an Intel I remember.
> 
> It may still be a RaQ3 as some of the velociraptors were RaQ3 
> based and some
> were RaQ4 based - easy way to tell power it up and then cat 
> /proc/cpu and
> see if it is near to 300Mhz or 450Mhz then you know it is 
> RaQ3 or RaQ4 and
> you have a bonus NIC not that you can use it through the GUI 
> but you could
> configure them manually to do something not sure what as such 
> or take it out
> and put it into a firewall box to give you 2 DMZ which is 
> what it was used
> for in the Velociraptor unless of course someone was to leave 
> an iso for
> velociraptor accidentally on an ftp for you then you have a 
> velociraptor box
> if you can get a licence for it :-)
> 
> Gavin