Re: [SLUG] Linux learners box

From: Steve (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Sat May 15 2004 - 11:55:04 EDT


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On Saturday 15 May 2004 11:01 am, Kwan Lowe wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 10:08, chris lee wrote:
> > ill more than likely give it to my brother when i go up for christmas.
> >
> > shoulda got ahold of me a month ago, i junked out a tweaked HP pavilion
> > notebook for 600$ to a girl in canada i know from IRC.
>
> Wish I could do that... I have a hard time getting rid of old equipment.
> I still have 233MMX machines in my garage.

That would make an excellent firewall. Slap OpenBSD on it and you can go
from a basic to top of the line firewall. Unless the h/w is bad there's no
reason to throw/give it away. Once configured it can be headless. Just have
two decent NIC's in it.

- --
Steve

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin

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