Yes, I used OpenBSD on a mac 7200.
Yes there was 100MB nubus ethernet cards, I have one in a IIcx
Issue is you need about 300MB+ of disk space to install the operating
system
Really of course your cable/asdl connection won't give you 10MB?
Should confirm what your provider can do.
For example I pay extra to get upto 7 Mb download speed.
However I'll point out you can buy a 160Mhz PC from your local junk
shop for on the order of $50
plus a pair of pci ethernet cards of $20. That would get you a
faster firewall. Still that would cost $70 or so.
OpenBSD because their mandate is security.
On 21-Jan-06, at 2:37 PM, Loren Faeth wrote:
Hmmmm What about setting an old mac 7100 or so running OS7.6 of some
flavor of Linux as a firewall? I have some old Macs around. Not
good for
a lot, but they are plenty good for a firewall. Guess I'd have to
use at
least a 7200 with PCI slots for the second network card unless I
could find
a 100baseT Nubus. I don't think anyone made a 100baseT Nubus, but
I could
be wrong.
Anybody done this?
