RE: [MLUG] 486SX lease on life?

["Brent Deterding" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Agreed - my firewall is a P-200 as well and it cranks just fine running
iptables.

However - that's a p-200 not a 486SX - I don't know about that one. . .

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Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 8:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [MLUG] 486SX lease on life?


Hi.

If you haven't thought of a use for the old 486's yet, here ya go!

http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/


(You don't even need the hard drives!)

If you don't want to bother, then perhaps you will consider selling them to
me?

I collect old 486's and Pentiums and make firewalls out of them.  (And they
perform pretty quick--certainly fast enough to compare to lower end cisco
routers--and fast enough for a home cable-modem connection.  A Pentium 200
MHz-based version of one of these blew the doors off a high-end Cisco
firewall worth about $15000.00!

They are pretty rock-solid stable, too.  I used to run one, but replaced it
with one of those firewall appliances you can get at the local computer
store
because I figured the appliance would be secure, fast, better, etc.

Wrong.  The appliance crashes about once per month, does a lousy job of
logging, and is not going to win any prizes for upgradeability or speed.

The LRP firewall I had didn't know the meaning of the word "Die", and it
just
giggled away quietly in the corner whenever anyone tried to DoS it.

A.


On Monday 01 April 2002 08:52 pm, you wrote:
> My wife & I (well, me mostly) have become proud owners of our parents'
> old 486SX'es (2). I've heard you can make a workable Linux box with a
> 486DX >= 8 MB. How 'bout the SX?  Would I be wasting my time?
> 	Thanks,
> 	Dave
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