To be a decent firewall I suspect you would want more RAM, but unless you are going crazy with state rules the CPU can probably handle it nicely. Not positive, but I recall that you don't get both the RJ45 and the DIX - its one or the other.
Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Greg Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [TriLUG] sparc 4 hardware Is a Sparc4 system with 32 megs of ram and a 500 meg scsi drive even worth loading a Linux distro on? I was thinking of using it as a firewall. But here's what I don't recall - the Sparc4 had two ethernet ports - one DIX/AUI and one RJ-45. Can I use both ports at the same time is it only one or the other in use at one time? Assuming that I can use both ethernet ports can I load Mandrake 9.0 with only what is required to support routing and iptables and perhaps one or two other goodies? Given the vintage of the hardware is this totally pointless? Greg _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
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