Looks like a good idea. You will definitely want to find something EASY to use. Smoothwal isn't bad. Astaro is also a good idea if the sale is to individuals. I'm concerned about the hard-drives in such old machines though.
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 --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
