Re: install ipcop

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.firewalls, in
article <mCUif.151540$dP1.509206@newsc.telia.net>, Anders wrote:

>gene martinez wrote:
>> I have an old p100 and wonder if I can install ipcop on it?

Depends on how much RAM is installed. See the requirements page on their
web site.

>> Also do you need different make/model nic's? I have a few old 3com
>> 3c509's, can I install more than (1) of the same kind nic? I want to
>> end up with (4) nic's,

3C509s? Slow, but depends on your traffic load. Do a web search for the
Ethernet-HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project. They've been used
without problems since the early 1990s.

>I did read someware that they had been able to set up and run Ip-Cop
>on som 286

Exceptionally unlikely. IP-Cop is a Linux firewall, and Linux requires
a minimum of a 80386 in the x86 family. "MINUX" (an O/S used as a tesching
aid) and ELKS may work on a 286, but I don't think either had a firewall
capability.

>with 14M in ram (but I am not sure it was Ip-Cop 1.4.x,
>it could have been 1.3.x or older).

Not using IP-Cop (don't need the extra crap beyond what's already in
the basic Linux kernel), but my primary connection (firewall and router)
is a 386SX-16 laptop (possibly it was an Acer originally) with 8 Megs
of RAM, with no display, no keyboard, and no case for that matter. It's
a severely stripped kernel (I have to compile it on one of the work
stations, because it lacks the disk and memory space for a compiler),
but it works fine. I just picked up some old 386 systems (three desktops
and two lapdogs) for $5, and will be stripping them to get memory chips
to bring my firewall up to it's max of 16 Megs.

        Old guy
Received on Sat Dec 3 04:18:47 2005