[luau] Looking for school LTSP project

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Fri May 24 15:45:01 PDT 2002


50MHz sun4u, 16MB RAM, and a bad NVRAM (I have to tell it a mac addy 
every time I turn it on).

But it works :)

If I have time this summer, I'll look into sparc boot procedures and see 
if I can get a firewall disk working.

--MonMotha

Dustin Cross wrote:
> I have been using a sparc5 with OpenBSD as my firewall for a couple years
> now.  It is great.  It would be nice if there was a minimal linux
> firewall/router distro for sparc. SuSE has the best sparc distro, but it is
> WAY TOO MUCH for a little 85mhz sparc5!
> 
> I haven't played with SLXT yet, but I am very interested.
> 
> Dusty
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>If you want the help of a local (to this list, definately non-local
>>physically :) firewall/iptables guru, I can help.  I have a
>>SparcStation  IPX I can test on, though it only has the one onboard
>>NIC.
>>
>>--MonMotha
>>
>>Taylor Cody Civ SAIC/PETS wrote:
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Dustin Cross [mailto:dusty at sandust.com]
>>>Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 11:39 AM
>>>To: luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu
>>>Subject: RE: [luau] Looking for school LTSP project
>>>
>>>
>>>Those Sparcs can make good diskless clients, with the only problem
>>>being they most likely only have 8-bit color.
>>>http://www.pucebaboon.com/SLXT/
>>>
>>>They also make good firewalls if you have an extra NIC.
>>>
>>
>>....
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