If you are like Ron (heavily involved in setting up and Enterprise Network Security Architectures in the real world), you'll probably find yourself wanting to build custom Network Security Toolkit systems. Most likely, you'll be able to use most components that you come across. However, if you'd rather be safe, you may want to make use of Ron's current entry level parts list. If nothing else it serves as a good starting point for a suggested component list to get NST up and going. The following table is a breakdown of Ron's entry level parts preference and approximate prices as of 2004-Mar-21 (all amounts are in USD). This particular system configuration includes 3 10/100 network interfaces. It is important to stress that a CDROM with a fast read speed (52x) is beneficial to experience the best results from NST.