etharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mandrake (at least since 7.1) is "optimized" for at least pentium class
> machines, I suggest you try to find a older copy of redhat (6.0, I am sure
> would run) or the 7.0 i486arch version of mandrake. But bud, you are going to
> make a compairision then you are tieing onehand and both feet and one eye
> against a 500 kilo gorilla
Oh, I don't know. My firewall at home is Mandrake 7.0.2, which was the only
486 mandrake available back when I built the box. ITs been running as my
firewall quite happily for a long time now. (The current box is a 'high-speed
486 dx2-66' that replaced a slow-speed 486 dx33 ;-) I use dialup at 33.6 only...
> On Sunday 29 July 2001 11:10, Gavin wrote:
> > Dear Experts,
> >
> > I need your help, I have been given an old Toshiba DynaBook EZ 486, I want
> > to use it as a floppy bootup firewall for my SOHO system, any suggestions
> > on software to be used? also I need to get the manuals in english,
> > everything is in Japanese. thanks for your help in advance.
Argh. That's a pain. Hmm. System manuals. Did you look on the Toshiba
web site?
Back to the software. I'm using Mandrake 7.0.2 on my 486 boxes right now.
Red Hat should work also - there was a time when RH worked on anything from
486 up but I don't know if that's still the case. Same with Slackware and
SuSe - they used to but I don't know any more.
You'll need to install, as a minimum, the base system, compiler, and firewall
tools. After making a bunch a firewalls, I've started installing as much
as possible and then going back and disabling all un-needed services. This
makes it easier to run those tools that you'd not normally think to install,
like kppp and the ppp monitoring tools (whose names I forget, but which are
really cool to run ;-). That way you don't have to go back and install them
later. But I'm lazy ;-)
(where 'making a bunch of firewalls' means about 3 or 4 or so in the last year...)
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