[SunRescue] Router vs. PC with router/firewall software...

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Mike Hebel wrote:

> I'm sold - OpenBSD is it!  Now I just have to learn how to set it up and see
> if I can't use one of my old SPARC boxes with it.

Other than some of the sun4 stuff and sun4u boxes, you should have no
problems.  I've run it on sun4c and sun4m machines of different varieties
myself.

> If not I have an old
> Compaq Presario all-in-one type box that will hold two Ethernet cards.  That
> and an AMD 5x133 upgrade should provide a nice self-contained box.  I could
> probably even set it to run the firewall log to the screen to see the rules
> in action.  (A waste of bandwidth/processing power I know but it would look
> cool! ;-)

The only reason you might still consider that 5x133 is that the x86 machines
tend to be snappier on encryption.  So if you're going to do IPSec, you
MIGHT be better off with the x86.  That said, unless you're doing high
bandwidth stuff, the sparc would probably be better.

--Kurt