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

[Pete Ryland]

On 29/10/06, M.Blackmore <mblackmore at oxlug.org> wrote:
>
> 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.


FWIW, you don't really need a second network card.  You can run the two
networks on the same switch.  If they are distinct subnets, it should be
secure.

Pete
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