[rescue] Small Sparc as firewall

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On 20 Apr 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > Since there's a 99.9% chance I'll be getting an ISDN circuit when I move,
> > and I don't want to pay the $300/mo for a dedicated/routed netblock (at
> > least not for a few months), I'm going to need a NAT box to hide
> > everything behind.
> >
> > I've got an ISDN TA with a 115K serial port on the back of it...will
> > something like a base SS2 deal with it?  Or will I need something
> > faster...or should I just throw an Alpha or PeeCee at it?
> >
> > I've got a couple of SS2s, 2 SS20s, and an AlphaServer 200.
>
> As other people have said, you want an SS10.  I think one of the older
> machines has onboard ISDN as well, maybe the LX?  The SGI Indy has
> ISDN as well, but running Irix as a firewall seems, well, stupid.  :)
> I don't think anything else runs on them (Indy's) well enough to use.

You could always run NetBSD/sgimips as a firewall.

FWIW, the DECstation 5000/xx (MAXINE) has ISDN as well.

Peace...  Sridhar