On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 08:36, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't used my infamous Toshiba Satellite with FreeBSD 4.8 very much > since I got my desktop system with a flatscreen. I'm trying to think of > something interesting to do with it now. I don't really need a separate > firewall, and it doesn't make sense to use it as a fileserver. With a ppp > connection, it couldn't easily be a webserver either. > > Any ideas on something interesting to use it for? Maybe some kind of > learning experience?
I had a similar desktop machine collecting dust, and I set it up as a transparent proxy/content filter using ipfw + squid + squidguard (and recently frox). Makes browsing a lot faster on slower connections. Seeya...Q _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
