[CentOS] Re: Firewall frustration
Ugo Bellavance
ugob at lubik.ca
Tue Jan 1 15:32:14 UTC 2008
Mark Weaver wrote:
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> On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:57:22 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at 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.
Ugo
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