Florian Philipp <f.philipp <at> addcom.de> writes: > > I'm building several gentoo firewalls for friends out of old > > pc parts (586 class)....
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo Very cool, but, I'll have to look into this versus GNAP after I get firewall built quick for a friend. Right now, I decided to use an 8 gig HD for now and build them the way I have been for a while. One question remains. These are vintage 586 machines, so the building process is a bit finiky as gentoo support for i586 is sporadic at best. I have not found stage3 tar files for i586 under 2007.0 on several mirros. Maybe they exist elsewhere? Looking at this dir: http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/releases/x86/2006.1/stages/ <snip> stage3-i586-2006.1-no-nptl.tar.bz2 stage3-i586-2006.1.tar.bz2 I see nptl and no-nptl versions. Could somebody explain the difference in how it relates to an old i586? Is this a choice that either will work or do I have to use no-nptl for certain vendors cpus(k6) ? Can I use nptl? What's the minimum USE flags for a hardened i586? I just run iptables and get 3 or 4 ethernet cards working. James system using nptl? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
