When I 1st got my cable modem 2 years ago, they didn't have those nice little NAT/routers. I recommend them to others. I've seen them with print servers & 802.11b wireless.
But I had a PC (p166) that I could use. And lots of extra NIC cards. I went to a web site (linux-firewalls.com?) that spit out an ipchains (or ipfw that preceeded ipchains?) script. It worked well enough. Someone at work was a NetBSD commiter & convinced me to try it. So I did. It's been very nice too. I'm not tempted to put X & other apps on it ;-) I find ipfilter easier to understand then ipchains. iptables is pretty good too. Then work had some sparcs they wanted to get rid of. So I got one (with 2 nics) and put NetBSD on it. I copied /etc from the PC, changed the MAC on the sun & I was going. Now I could use my PC for other things. I also have some macintosh 68k machines with 2 nics cards that I'm eyeing for NetBSD. I wish I could swap architectures that easily with linux. I'm also glad that I can use ipfilter & know that if I upgrade the OS, I don't have to rewrite my rules (ipfw/ipchains/iptables). I also like the fact that I have a non-standard OS without a familiar 386 CPU in it. And being able to SSH into it to check logs, dump files from work, and allow others to have accounts. If I had the $$, I'd love to get an embedded CPU thing that uses less power, but for now, the sparc is working pretty well. (hoping I don't get shot for talking up NetBSD on a Linux list :-) My laptop runs Mandrake 8.1 btw. -- ------- Tom Buskey ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
