[rescue] looking for a Multia

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Mon Aug 11 23:16:00 CDT 2003


On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 10:04:42PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 10:00 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
> >>  Hey folks.  I'm looking for a DEC Multia, either the 166 or 233MHz
> >>version.  Anybody have one they don't need?
> >
> >Isn't that one of the alphas that you like to benchmark against 
> >urinating
> >archives?
> 
>   The very one.  But to act as a firewall and DHCP server for a 
> two-machine network on the end of a slow DSL pipe, it's perfect.

Hmmm.  How might it do as a firewall/ppp/NAT/router box?  And what were
you thinking of running on one?



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