On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:58:17AM +0000, Alan wrote:
> There are a couple of perhaps saner options - an old PPC mac (new ones
> are x86-64), or a current Sparc box (very nice but not cheap) and
> some will run latest Linux stuff

As it happens, I'm typing this on a dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5...and wouldn't
mind an opportunity to replace it with a quad-core Mac Pro. :-)

> So run everything network facing in Hercules, and hercules chrooted to a
> nobody user in a chroot dir containing only the hercules environment and
> support files. Pass the handle of the tunnel device in as a file
> descriptor with a hack and off you go.

That's what I had in mind if I went with a Hercules-based solution, though
Xen would be good too.
--
Jay Maynard, K5ZC                    http://www.conmicro.cx
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