Re: halted firewalls
Why not use something like Coyote firewall, it's a floppy-based firewall/router. No hard drives required and you can set the floppy to write protect or remove it once you've written the configuration and started the box. Maybe it's not quite what a halted system is, but seems like it's close and a lot less pain. I ran one for a couple of years before I wanted fancy graphs and such and moved to a different package.
Jon
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:54:23 +0100, Lothar Ketterer <superapotheker@m-air.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:07:51AM +0100, Ludo wrote:
>> As this is a home LAN, I don't have tons of room/pc's. So the gateway
>> in this case is just another pc, and using this idea I wouldn't have
>> to boot this pc for no other reason than "gatewaying". So it's mostly
>> to avoid running the gateway, because of the added noise, etc.
>
> Maybe it would be good to use hardware that does not consume too much
> power and is cooled passively, including the processor (but not the
> power supply unit, i guess). Some Mini-ITX like the EPIA mainboard
> series from VIA or similar could do this job.
>
> Regards,
> Lothar
>
>
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