You use what you got, I suppose. You could run all sorts of services on it, but I'm told that's not the best thing to do with a firewall. It might make a tempting target for others to run their services too.
What's up with running more than one monitor? I've gone the other way, using one monitor for many boxes. The boxes each have specific purposes and usually get their own virutal screen. When I have a task that could use more than one machine's help, I put the programs for that task on their own virtual screen. Cutting and pasting mostly works these days. It fits what I have and do. Multiple monitors might be nice for studying large complex schematics, especially if they both had multimple virutal screens. What do you do with your multimontor boxes? > From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Clickers needs help configuring firewall > boxes for garage sale: Smoothwall? > Reply-To: [email protected] > Scott, > The AGP port on the 700 Mhz box died so rather than trying to fix it or > replace it, I just let it be an opportunity, excuse, or justification (pick > the one that best fits) to upgrade this machine. So, I now have a working > 700 Mhz machine with plenty of ram that can only drive one monitor. I > figure it will be a good candidate for a firewall/NAT. > > Ed
