Re: setting up a minimal PC as RH9 firewall
From: Bryan (rockiesbryan_at_netscape.net)
Date: 10/22/03
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:19:34 -0600
€®ik wrote:
> I want to set up a minimal PC (as in power consumption) as a RH9
> firewall.
> I was thinking of getting an old 486 board, with no fans, no harddisk
> and maybe get the thing booted from floppy and/or CDROM.
> I'd make the CD on another machine...
>
> Or maybe get it to boot from the NIC card, getting the OS from a
> machine in the local network.
>
> I would want to build the minimal kernel myself, or get a really good
> one from the net somewhere.
> I want to build the Netfilter / IPTables myself, using one or two good
> books on Netfilter.
>
> So, lots of problems to solve, lots to learn in the process.
>
> Anyone have suggestions on where to find relevant info and software ?
> I already have RH9 and I can build a kernel.
> Main thing is getting the stuff on CD and bootfloppy: what goes where
> and how.
> Most old 486 boards can't boot from CD, can they ?
>
> frgr
> Erik
>
You might want to take a look at m0n0wall too. It is based upon FreeBSD
and ipfilter. It is working very well for me on an older AMD K6/300
system. It will boot off of cdrom or a flash card. http://m0n0.ch/wall
The other thing I have noticed with some older systems is that various
unix drivers may have problems with devices on the far side of PCI
bridge chips. My system will recognize PCI cards in pci slots 1 & 2, but
not 3 & 4.
Used/refurbished thin systems from HP/IBM/Compaq are readily available
for reasonable prices. You can get a decent system that will boot from
cdrom with a 500 MHz cpu, built-in lan, decent RAM, easily for less than
$200 US.
Bryan
-- "I'm afraid the old ideal of the lion lying down with the lamb doesn't work out in practice. About all it does is make a fast lunch for the lion." Jason dinAlt - Deathworld by Harry Harrison
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