Re: [MLUG] 486SX lease on life?

["Rick Buford" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Just for comparison, I forget what I paid for this PIX, but it was at least 
$4G:
Cisco PIX Firewall Version 6.1(1)
Cisco PIX Device Manager Version 1.1(2)

Compiled on Tue 11-Sep-01 07:45 by morlee

XXXXX up 15 days 21 hours

Hardware:   PIX-515, 32 MB RAM, CPU Pentium 200 MHz
Flash i28F640J5 @ 0x300, 16MB
BIOS Flash AT29C257 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB


Rick 
When we were young, we were told that "everybody else is doing it" was a
really stupid reason to do something. Now it's the standard reason for
picking a particular software package. -- Barry Gehm



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From: ATTBI <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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Sent: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 21:29:47 -0500
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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