[Glastonbury] firewall using 486 with floppy

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:23:51PM +0000, Martin WHEELER wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, d.hopkins wrote:
> 
> > (There is a network card connecting from 486 to personal pc, but needs to be
> > configured yet.)
> 
> You're going to need a second network card as well, to connect to your
> modem / router, and thus on to the internet.
> 
> You don't need all that much room on your hard drive -- about 100M; that
> is unless you intend to connect to an ADSL router which will only allow
> itself to be talked to via some sort of application which demands an X
> interface.  (Bummer, if all you've got is a samll machine with not
> much memory.)
> 
> Meanwhile, back in Cheltenham ... Andy's deep into SM, installing a
> firewall on a crappy 486 with a duff hard disk and only 12M of memory...
LEAF - Dachstein disk - 1680k - won't work on a non FPU machine

FloppyFW version 2 - ditto

FloppyFW version 1.* works fine with a 486SX and 12M

> 
> Oh, the joy.
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