Notebook as a router/firewall - SUCCESS

[George Toft]

Thanks Gary,

My backup plan, if this didn't work, was to attach a small fan to the
case (after cutting a couple holes in it) for forced air ventilation.
Fortunately, I didn't need to get that drastic.

George


Gary Nichols wrote:
> 
> I did this years ago on a laptop with two PCMCIA network cards... using
> Redhat 5.2!!  It recognized both cards on startup, and with a few ipfwadm
> commands I had a nice firewall working in a matter of minutes.  As long as
> your laptop has no heating problems (which he got around nicely, I might
> add) the laptop is a great solution.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kurt
> Granroth
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 10:20 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Notebook as a router/firewall - SUCCESS
> 
> George Toft wrote:
> > I have succeeded in converting my old P120 laptop into a
> > router/firewall.
> 
> Interesting.  How did you get two ethernet cards to work on the laptop
> at the same time?  Hopefully you are not sharing eth0 and eth0:1 on
> the same card...
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