Why not use something like Coyote firewall, it's a floppy-based firewall/router. No hard drives required and you can set the floppy to write protect or remove it once you've written the configuration and started the box. Maybe it's not quite what a halted system is, but seems like it's close and a lot less pain. I ran one for a couple of years before I wanted fancy graphs and such and moved to a different package.
Jon On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:54:23 +0100, Lothar Ketterer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:07:51AM +0100, Ludo wrote: >> As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway >> in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have >> to boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's mostly >> to avoid running the gateway, because of the added noise, etc. > > Maybe it would be good to use hardware that does not consume too much > power and is cooled passively, including the processor (but not the > power supply unit, i guess). Some Mini-ITX like the EPIA mainboard > series from VIA or similar could do this job. > > Regards, > Lothar > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
