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

[Nix]

On 29 Oct 2006, Tethys verbalised:
> "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.

... as long as you don't want to run Snort on it:

  RSS    VSZ
59316  97772

(and this is with all the conserve-memory-dammit options turned *on*!
Still at least the snort devs say that memory reduction is now a
priority...)

-- 
`When we are born we have plenty of Hydrogen but as we age our
 Hydrogen pool becomes depleted.'
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