I'd use the 233 and run OpenBSD. In fact, that's exactly what I do at home
right now.

The dual PPC 100 is going to be harder to find a supporting OS, although I'd
figure Linux probably runs on it.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Caraker Shane A SrA 1 CS/SCMV 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 8:54 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Kinda OT -- Firewall servers and the like (home use)
> 
> 
> My roommate recently acquired a Dual P233 (think it was a 
> 233) system and a
> Dual Power PC 100mhz system... (not sure the rest of the 
> specs off hand, i
> know one system has 10 2.5gig SCSI Drives)...
> 
> Would either of these be suited for a firewall setup?  I'm 
> assuming some
> version of *nix could handle this w/ out a problem, as well 
> as maybe acting
> as a file server (no important files) and a few other misc tasks.
> 
> This sound feasible?  and what *nix flavor would be best 
> suited to something
> like this?
> 
> Neither of us are "well versed" in linux/unix, but we're both 
> familair with
> it.
> 
> 
> thnx
> 
> shane
> 
> 
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