What are people's opinions and experiences on running OpenBSD as a home firewall on a laptop?
I'm considering converting my old firewall running on a P200MMX with 96M of RAM over to a laptop with a couple of add-in PCMCIA NICs. I'd get a big CPU boost (PIII), a big RAM boost (256M) and hopefully come out approximately equal on power utilization. I might even spring for a CF adapter and CF card in place of the hard drive for even less power usage. I've read concerns about laptops (and components, including hard drives) not being designed for 24x7 running, having to constantly have the screen open so that proper cooling can take place through the keyboard, etc., etc. In other words, what are people's long-term experiences with running OpenBSD on laptops? Are such setups likely to survive for 3 to 5 years or longer? This current P200MMX desktop firewall has been running almost continuously for almost 10 years now with no problems other than a couple of bad hard drives that I've had to replace. That's the kind of reliability I'm looking for in a laptop-based firewall. Realistic expectations or not? Thanks in advance, Rodney Hopkins rhopk...@team.camaroz28.com _____________________________________________________________ Free E-mail by CamaroZ28.Com - FULL THROTTLE INTERNET
