On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:25:25 -0800, Chris Berry wrote: >>That particular oldie is the only one we have that is working. The >>other oldie is a P75 with 32M ram and a 500M hd. Somebody ran NT4 >>off of it before I started at the dept... Anyway, I don't want to >>use oldie #2 for anything, except maybe as a doorstop... 8-) It's >>way to slow. > >Actually, it would work just fine as a Linux Router or Firewall, as long as >you were willing to deal with command line only. I'm already running personal software firewalls on my admin computers. As for the rest they are firewalled on the university level, no need to firewall more. Yet. 8-) Thx for the hint though! A friend of mine, gave me a linux-floppy with some firewall software on it. He said, I should boot from the floppy and that's it. Firewalling would be active from the floppy. Small piece of code apparently... 8-) BW, Sorin # Sorin Srbu, Systems Engineer Web: http://www.farmfak.uu.se/organisk/ # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >> 5 signals >> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile Phone: +46 (0)701-718023 # BMC, Box 574, Uppsala University Fax: +46 (0)18-4714474 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # # Public PGP key available on request. ================================== To Unsubscribe, set digest or vacation mode or view archives use the below link. http://thethin.net/win2000list.cfm