[rescue] Small Sparc as firewall

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Sun Apr 21 00:27:49 CDT 2002


On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> > As other people have said, you want an SS10.  I think one of the older
> > machines has onboard ISDN as well, maybe the LX?  The SGI Indy has ISDN
> > as well, but running Irix as a firewall seems, well, stupid.  :)  I
> > don't think anything else runs on them (Indy's) well enough to use.
> 
> I don't know about ISDN support though, without which, the whole thing
> is pointless.

As far as I know, Linux only knows how to use the AT&T DBRI chip on the
Sun4m systems as an audio device, not as an ISDN TA.  Even that didn't
work reliably the last time I tried (late 2.2, early 2.4 days).

--Jonathan



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