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i got an unusual hit on my firewall:

experimental tcp option found. hmm… someone is playing around with tcp.

wow. the power consumption at idle of the thing is 0.1 watt. this would be a nice replacement for my smoothwall machine.
Touted as the “world’s most power-efficient” x86-compatible CPU, the 500MHz Via Eden ULV processor debuted at an Embedded Systems Conference in Taipei this week.

smoothwall just released express 3.0 (polar) with lots of nice new features. the download is small (69mb for the i386 and 71mb for the 64-bit version) compared to other firewall distros.
make sure you download the installation and administrator guides and read them before doing anything.

ach. its been a whole while. i have been kept busy.
we moved. from one house to another. not an easy thing to do. no internet for a couple of weeks. then there’s school opening.
clark connect, smoothwall and rsync have all been keeping me quite occupied as well. offsite backup is all i can tell [...]

its a monday.
the firewall’s hard disk crashed. it didn’t even give me a warning. stupid hard disk.
its a good thing i have an extra drive (4 gig) hanging around and a recent backup of the firewall. all i have to do is install the firewall, copy the backup and untar the thing. but the rub [...]