[PLUG] Firewalls

David Fleck david.fleck at mchsi.com
Thu Dec 1 13:41:46 UTC 2005


On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, fh hillsboro wrote:
>> Anybody using a dedicated Linux box as a firewall?
>
>  From 1 June 1999 until the middle of last September I ran a floppfw box. I
> worked great until it died. There were four reboots: a motherboard failure
> after seven months, an attempt to upgrade floppyfw from 1.09, and two power
> outages here.


Ditto on floppyfw.  I had a junked P166 machine with 2 NICs and a floppy 
drive (no hard drives, no CD) that ran floppyfw flawlessly for ~ 3 years. 
Eventually I needed a wireless router, so I retired it and have been 
using the firewall capabilities of the router instead.


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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com




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