Performance decrease for one thing.  You also need to use a router with outside
connection connected to it and internal network.
I dont think the DC would make a good firewall.  But it would be cool :)


Andy Michaels wrote:

> Hubert, I got the DC to boot off CD and mount the HPCSH distro as the root
> FS.  What problems are you encountering?  I was also thinking about the
> following:
>
> 1) using a VMU for system configuration and as a r/w fs
> 2) using apache as a remote configuration tool (write some cgi's or
> something)
> 3) put a nice flamejob sticker on the DC :)
>
> I read somewhere a reference to only needing 1 NIC to have a
> firewall.  Does anyone know any issues with this?
>
> Andy
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> On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Andy Michaels wrote:
> > > I should be getting my BBA next month when I'm officially out of debt.  I
> > > was thinking about doing some type of "visual firewall" with the DC, but
> > > don't really know where to start.  Is anyone interested in something like
> > > this?
> >
> > Sure... areas that may be interresting here (and can be used elsewhere):
> >  * get a NetBSD system on a CD, and boot from that (not from BBA)
> >  * get to prepare such a (bootable) CD with NetBSD tools like mkisofs and
> >    cdrecord. (I tried the instructions on Marcus' page, but with little
> >    success so far)
> >
> > Also, do we have some drivers to talk to the modem, e.g. for dial-out?
> > I had a few students ask the other day as they don't have BBAs...
> >
> >
> >  - Hubert
> >
> > --
> > Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
> >
> >