[ltp] laptop as firewall

[dean gaudet]

don't forget noatime mount option... also you probably want to disable
crond and atd -- because they wake up the disk too frequently.

i've been using an old tp560 for my firewall for years now... last reboot
it had 450 days uptime... and i reboot to upgrade to a newer kernel.  at
the moment it's at 296 days uptime.  it only runs on battery if there's a
power failure.

-dean

On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 17:36:47 -0700, SMichelle wrote:
> > I have an old tp 380 lying around and am hoping to put it to use as a
> > firewall/gateway. If I set it up and place the machine in suspend ...
> > will it still pass packets? Will there be a significant decrease in the
>
> If you put it into standby mode (Fn-F3) it will consume less power than
> in normal operation and is still useable over a network. You could also
> use noflushd (if you use the ext2 file system) to maximize the downtime
> of the hard disk.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
>
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