John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Smoothwall is nice. But you could also avoid using HDD's by going with the floppy-based FreeSco. http://www.freesco.org . Don't have to worry about power outages and pressing of the old 'reset' button with a floppy based distro. Could preconfigure one floppy and then use dd to duplicate to multiple others.
> The Cajun Clickers Computer Club (http://www.clickers.org) is a local > organization devoted to teaching people how to use their computers and > different software applications for their PCs. They are primarily > Microsoft Windows users, but they have welcomed Linux into their > organization by asking us to be involved with their group. I run a > monthly meeting for new Linux users there. > > Besides being a great organization for computer users, they also have > a lot of great resources, such as a PC lab, A/V equipment, classrooms, > etc. They also have a lot of old unused hardware in storage and > continue to receive donations of old PCs, for which they have little > use except for teaching hardware repair classes. One resource they do > have in abundance are old small hard drives, 486s and network > cards. Perfect raw material for firewall/NAT/router boxes. > > I was recently asked by a senior Clickers member if we would help them > out by installing Linux on some old 486s and configuring them as > firewalls for a garage sale they are having. Certainly this could be > done, but I was wondering about the best way to go about it. > > The recent postings about firewalls on this list gave me the answer: > Smoothwall (thanks Mat!) (http://www.smoothwall.org). > > So what do you think? Is this the best way to go about it? Also, if > this is a good solution to the problem, is anyone interested in > helping out? If you are interested, please reply to this post or email > me directly. I figure we could configure about a dozen or so > Smoothwall boxes and that would help them a bunch. > > If there are a number of machines with similar hardware > configurations, then a lot of labor could be saved by duplicating a > drive image across multiple drives and installing that into the > boxes. I will have to check. > > Any other ideas? > > -- > John Hebert > System Engineer > I T Group, Inc. http://www.it-group.com > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "...and one script to rule them all."
