I noticed before xmas that there were a number of 56k ISA modems
available in molten media.

Now these things (ISA modems) always seem to fully emulate a serial port
properly (in the way described by Volker).  Maybe worth a look if
anyone is looking for a modem for a ipcop box. ipcop will run on an
older machine, and they will often have ISA slots.

On Thu, 08 Jan 2004
22:16:49+1300 Yuri de Groot<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > I've been using Smoothwall (www.smoothwall.org) for
> > sometime now as a firewall (since version 1) and have just
> > upgraded to V2.0 and there's lots of differences
> > particularly in the layout and also the options as well,
> > there's even an option to "hide" your external ip so no
> > one can even ping you :). Kinda cool. Just another option
> > to IPCop really though.
> 
> IIRC IPCop is a fork of Smoothwall.
> One of our fellow CLUGgers had a spat with the smoothwall
> developer and recommended IPCop as an alternative. Since I
> consider all CLUGgers as my friends, I decided to go with
> IPCop.
> 
> I'm sure SW is good too.
> I don't believe any general use PC should be connected to
> the outside world without a firewall inbetween. This is true
> for linux and double true for that other OS.
> 
> And it's so simple to do - I'm shocked I didn't do it
> earlier and amazed I haven't been rooted in the meantime (to
> my knowledge).
> 
> Yuri
> 
> 


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