Almost forgot...

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Dec 23 08:15:19 2000

On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great Bruce Lane once stated:
>
> > --Mid-90's vintage Pentium system, dual-CPU, 64MB RAM.
> > --One NCR 3450 series MCA Dual-CPU 486 system, 64MB RAM.
>
> Any one of these will make a decent fire wall system. Check the net,
> there are plenty of sites and distributions for this type of work.

Not if he's to run NetBSD (which was a requirement). Judging by the
current state of the NetBSD MCA support, he'd have to run the NCR firewall
on a TokenRing network. And the day when NetBSD sees support for NCA
dual-CPU 486 MCA systems should indeed be very far off.
Received on Sat Dec 23 2000 - 08:15:19 GMT