> > $1,000 i could buy a 1 Ghz Pentium machine (sans monitor) loaded up > > :) > > Do you understand why this machine would be a poor basis for a > firewall? With the advent of custom kernels in *BSD and Linux, building a stripped-down OS to run as a firewall is not that difficult if you're concerned about other layers in the OS. -- Michael T. Babcock CTO, FibreSpeed - [To unsubscribe, send mail to majordomo@lists.gnac.net with "unsubscribe firewalls" in the body of the message.]