> Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:56:31 -0600 > From: Ben Lutgens <blutgens at sistina.com> > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:47:00AM -0600, Nate Carlson wrote: > >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > > >*firewall* > > > On a laptop? What are you smoking? A laptop is a great platform for a firewall. It's a small PC with a tiny power supply with built-in UPS so it won't cost an arm and a leg for electricity if you leave it on all the time. Add a couple 10mbps NIC's and you've got a great firewall. You could probably even get all that on a floppy. (Or an ATA Flash card, but that could take up a NIC slot.) Let's see... 700W (input, not 300W output) for my regular machine, versus 30W for the laptop. So that's 670W * 24hr *365 days makes about 5870kWhr, and at 8.3 cents each, that's almost $500 per year. So this really only makes sense if you already got an old laptop sitting around. Chris