[rescue] Suggestions for a *small form-factor* PC?

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

> > Yeah! I am currently using a sparcclassic running NetBSD as my
> > router/firewall. It runs like a charm with just 16MB of RAM. Plus NetBSD
> > comes with IPfilter and sshd by default. It takes about 1/2 hr to have a
> > fully configured router from scratch!
>
> That's currently what I'm using, only with 24MB or memory.  I haven't
> gotten the hang of making everything behave when my IP address changes,
> but it's working great for NAT.  Hopefully tonight I'll get it to do
> printing via CUPS, as well.
>
> It took me quite a bit longer than 30 minutes to get everything happy,
> though.  However, I'm not nearly as familiar with NetBSD as I am with
> OpenBSD[1], Linux, or Solaris.
>
> I've gotta say, though, multi-architecture bootable CD-ROMs kick -so- much
> ass.

I would not mind using a Classic or an LX for a firewall/router, but you
can't put FDDI in it.

Peace...  Sridhar