Nicholas Reese was once rumoured to have said: > The nastiest thing about an old box as a firewall is getting the ISA > network card recognized
Actually, thats bog-easy if you're using 3Com Etherlink IIIs (3c509), which can always be reliably soft-detected due to some rather cute and useful engineering on behalf of 3Com. Furthermore, you can get configuration utilities for the 3c509 which work under linux, so you can set its base address, IRQ, etc. *AND* there are hundreds of the things in circulation (I think 3com still makes them too). Just visit your local computer market and you should be able to pick up a couple second hand relatively cheaply. NE2000s aren't particularly hard either once you RTFM. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
