Re: Which distro for a small laptop firewall?
From: Maurice Janssen (mauricej_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 01/22/05
- Next message: Robert Nichols: "Re: How to renumber files?--Uh Oh!"
- Previous message: IsaacKuo: "Re: Anti-aliasing and other screen font annoyances - Debian Sarge."
- In reply to: Captain Dondo: "Which distro for a small laptop firewall?"
- Next in thread: Grant Edwards: "Re: Which distro for a small laptop firewall?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 16:23:59 +0000 (UTC)
In comp.os.linux.networking, Captain Dondo wrote:
>I've just dug up an old laptop; a 486 DX/4 with a 680 MB hard drive and 24
>MB of ram.
>
>I figure that I can get a PCMCIA II-type ethernet card on ebay for a few
>bucks and make a decent firewall out of this one.
>
>Here's my restrictions:
>
>It has no CD-ROM.
>It has a parallel-port floppy that it can boot from.
>It has two PCMCIA II slots; I have a network card for one and will get one
>for the other if this works.
>
>So....
>
>I need a distro that will work with this beast. The distro must support
>PCMCIA, and use at least 2.4 kernels so I can use iptables.
>
>I've been to Distrowatch. So far, three bear out promise:
>
>Devil-Linux <http://www.devil-linux.org>
>IPCop <http://www.ipcop.org>
>LUILUNX <http://www.masilla.org/luinux/>
>
>I know the traditional way to do this is to try them all, but on a
>486-DX4 the installs take all day....
>
>So, any suggestions/experience/comments?
What about OpenBSD ?
Installs very easily from floppy, very secure and will run fine on a
486.
You might want to check http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html to see if your
ethernet card is supported.
-- Maurice
- Next message: Robert Nichols: "Re: How to renumber files?--Uh Oh!"
- Previous message: IsaacKuo: "Re: Anti-aliasing and other screen font annoyances - Debian Sarge."
- In reply to: Captain Dondo: "Which distro for a small laptop firewall?"
- Next in thread: Grant Edwards: "Re: Which distro for a small laptop firewall?"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
Relevant Pages
|
|
