[TriLUG] sparc 4 hardware

[Ryan Leathers]

To be a decent firewall I suspect you would want more RAM, but unless
you are going crazy with state rules the CPU can probably handle it
nicely.
Not positive, but I recall that you don't get both the RJ45 and the DIX
- its one or the other.

Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Brown [mailto:gregbrown at mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:34 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] sparc 4 hardware

Is a Sparc4 system with 32 megs of ram and a 500 meg scsi drive even
worth
loading a Linux distro on?  I was thinking of using it as a firewall.
But
here's what I don't recall - the Sparc4 had two ethernet ports - one
DIX/AUI
and one RJ-45.  Can I use both ports at the same time is it only one or
the
other in use at one time?

Assuming that I can use both ethernet ports can I load Mandrake 9.0 with
only
what is required to support routing and iptables and perhaps one or two
other
goodies?   Given the vintage of the hardware is this totally pointless?

Greg
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