[rescue] roadrunner

[Sheldon T. Hall]

Of Andrew Weiss wrote ...

[in reply to my screed about using NT as a router for RoadRunner
 connectivity, and Joshua's rightly questioning my wisdom in doing
 so...]

> Yes I'd have to say running NT as a router is kind of asking for it.
>
> It's true if IIS is disabled that's 90% of the battle but why not just
> use something like a Sparcstation 2 or other.

At the time, I was not confident of my ability adequately to secure a Unix
machine.  Plus, I had piles of spare Wintel machines with NT licenses, and
only one Sun box.

> I use a Powermac 8100 running Linux so it's double obscure...

Before we had RoadRunner, and I was using dial-up, my router was a PC
running IPRoute, a DOS-based router.  It's both obscure and secure.  I'd
have used it for RR, but at the time it didn't support DHCP on an Ethernet
connection.

-Shel