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From: Per von Zweigbergk <pvz@ina...>
Subject: [9fans] Plan9 NAT network firewall on a 386?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:38:53 GMT

Hello.

This is my initial close contact to the world of plan9, and I don't know a
lot about it. I'm from a UNIX background, and I run Linux on my home
machines.

With that said, I can come to the main point of this post :)

I'm considering changing the operating system on my 386/25 with 4 MB of
RAM from Slackware Linux 3.9, to plan 9. The complete hardware of the
system is the following:

- Intel 386 at 25 mHz

- 4 MB of RAM (I don't think this can be extended, as there are only
four 30 pin SIMM slots, and bigger RAM chips are hard to get hold of in
this day and age.)

- A 170 MB IBM hard drive with an IDE interface.

- Two ISA network cards in non-PnP mode. NE2000 compliant off the shelf
stuff.
-- Network card 1 connected with a statically assigned IP to the
internal network.
-- Network card 2 connected to a cable modem with IP's assigned with
DHCP.


The tasks is has right now are:

- NAT (ip masquerading) firewall to let the network access the Internet.

- Telnet server four "outsiders" to connect to my workstations which are
more powerful.

- Emergency IRC machine. :)


Would this be possible to run on Plan9 rather than on Linux? I feel like
changing firstly for exploration... and possibly less bloat?

-- 
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