At 08:24 -0500 6/27/02, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
>sp00ky said, "But to get more back on-topic, it seems a lot more interesting
>to me to get a beefed-up SE/30 and install NetBSD on it. There's something
>whimsically charming about having a *nix OS in one of those classic
>Macintosh boxes. ;-)"
Or OpenBSD or Debian Linux, which is what I have in my SE/30.
I have not done much on it besides installing the OS since I need to
enable ssh in my Mac and my SS20, but I will; I want to use the SE/30
as my Linux teaching platform. =)
>Exactly. :) Since you can get up to 128MB of RAM into the SE/30, it makes
>it a particularly nice choice. This is one of the projects I have in my
>pipeline. But now we're drifting into topics that probably fit the MaX list
>better.
I do not know if I am redy to go 128MB in mine yet, but it is
nice to know it can do that. =)
>If your goal is to use a computer as a firewall, your first consideration
>needs to be the dual NIC, as I see it. Without that, you're going nowhere.
>I don't know if you're going to get that in the compact form factor. Maybe
>one of the other all-in-ones, maybe.
>
>Tim
Exactly. I have to say unless someone writes the code to run
one of those Asante SCSI-to-ethernet adaptors, a ci/cx would be a far
better choice as firewall.
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