Re: setting up a minimal PC as RH9 firewall

From: €®ik (no email)
Date: 10/23/03 

Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:37:22 +0200

>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

Thank you for your input.

The thing with the newer processors is heat: I would be very
satisfied, if I could find a board that doesn't need fans...
so just a board, two network cards and something to boot from.. maybe
even a NIC to boot...

frgr
Erik

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