On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:02:38AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2004 21:50:20 +0200, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>
> wrote:
> >I'm not sure about accounting, but "using it as a server/firewall" seems
> >to be one of the major usages for m68k hardware, as it seems.
>
> If usage as a firewall is _really_ that important, the connection
> tracking technology which has been available for more than two years
> now would be available on m68k.
>
> That nobody has bothered to fix 2.4 kernels for m68k shows that
> firewall applications are not one of the major usages for m68k
> hardware.
Bothering to read what I wrote would be nice.
2.2 is required for mac _only_. Macs usually have one builtin ethernet
port, and extra ethernet ports for macs are rare; that makes them quite
useless as a firewall for a network.
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