--- Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
Chris Mauritz wrote:
Ugo Bellavance wrote:
Mark Weaver wrote:
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On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500 Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Have you ever thought about how rare floppy
drives are now? At best
you go with a bootable usb, if your notebook
supports bootable USB.
My Libretto does have a bootable floppy, but
that is something extra
to carry. It will not boot from anything else
(besides its HD). My
nc4010 (this notebook) will boot from usb. My
corp notebook (nc2400)
is locked down; and I don't see any value at
getting corp IT bent out
of shape.
why would you even think about using a Notebook
computer as a firewall?
I was assuming you were going to delegate this
task to an older machine
with sufficient resources to handle the task and
not give the task to a
notebook computer.
I guess he wants it to be portable.
He seems to be knowing his requirements a lot
better than we do. It
looks like he wants an easy firewall that would
boot for HD only, cost
nothing, and runs with usb ethernet devices.
I really think he should carry an embedded
firewall (like a soekris or
a wrap) with pfsense on it.
Old laptops make pretty good firewalls, I think.
They take little
space, have a built-in battery backup and built-in
keyboard/monitor to
use when you are visiting the datacenter. I have
repurposed a couple
of older laptops for these reasons since the
machine doesn't need to be
very fast to accomplish the mission. A lot of 3-4
year old laptops cave
in under the weight of Windows, but are really
overkill for a simple
unix firewall. Better than sending them to the
dustbin.
hmmm ... I would think that they do not handle heat very well though.
Maybe they do, and certainly it is better than throwing them away I guess.
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The bad thing is if you always keep the laptop plugged in the battery will be useless and will not hold a charge. That is what happen with one of my laptops.