Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Wow 700Mhz. I'm doing an OpenBSD firewall with a P75. It's also handling IPSEC duties and acting as a wireless access point. I think I've had it for about 3 years starting with OpenBSD 2.7. And here's the typical load average -bash-2.05b$ uptime 3:07PM up 4 days, 20:01, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.08
For a firewall -- even with stateful packet filtering -- you don't need much processor at all. Certainly not for cable/dsl/dialup. > John, > > I will be glad to help with this activity. I want to learn about > firewall/NAT's. That is what I want to do with my 700 MHZ box that I > replaced with this one. > > Ed Richards > > > At 12:34 AM 2/22/2003 -0600, you wrote: >> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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."
