On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, J Weismann wrote:
> I recieved a large quantity of HP-UX 712/60 machines and am interested
> in putting a BSD flavor on it. After looking around a bit I think Net
> and Open BSD will work. Has anyone had any success in putting it on
> and using them as a firewall/NAT/DHCP box or even an IDS snooper?
not really a firewall question ...
openbsd does not work on hppa:
http://www.openbsd.org/hppa.html
netbsd does not work on hppa:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/#suggested-hp-parisc
well, not enough for you to make use of them. as for linux, its not yet
ready for real world work, ISTR (we own a bunch of them as well and
investigated a learner OS than HPUX 10.20):
http://parisc-linux.org/index.html
> Any suggestions in general with what to do with these things would be
> appreciated. We are hoping to build a linux Beowulf cluster with them
> and if anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate
> it.
learn HPUX. it's a valuable (read $$$) skill to have.
they have nice memory and hard drives in them. :)
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