[Gllug] Old small laptop firewall option? Or just send it to the recycling centre?

Tethys sta296 at astradyne.co.uk
Sun Oct 29 23:53:05 UTC 2006


"M.Blackmore" writes:

>Another old desktop p90 has died, thats the last of them. That leaves an
>old (ca 1993 or 94 vintage) 486 dx100 laptop with 20mb of ram and a
>humongous 1 gb of disk drive (wow), no cd, but a 1.44mb floppy.
>
>Is there a firewall that will run on such a box? Got one 10mbs pcmcia
>netcard, would need another. 

OpenBSD should run on this without problems, and will be the best
firewall you could ever wish for. Until last year, my firewall was
an old P60 (running OpenBSD), and it didn't even break into a sweat.
Your 486 DX100 should be fine.

Tet
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