Help turning old hardware into a firewall

[Meng Cheah]

Ian Petersen wrote:

>> If you want a couple of old NICs, I can bring them to the next meeting
>> on January 9.
>> If you have an old hard drive that you want to trade, that'll be great.
>> If you don't, you still can have the NICs :-) .
>> Just tell me if you want them, that way I'll know.
>
>
> Thank you for the offer, Meng.
>
> Hugh's link led me to learn several new things:
>
> - I already have the latest BIOS
> - a newer BIOS, if it were available, probably couldn't
>   make the motherboard PCI 2.2 compatible--it appears
>   to be a function of the chipset, which in my case
>   is Intel's 440LX
>
> So, I'd like to trade with you.  Perhaps you could reply to me
> off-list with some more details about what you're looking for?  I have
> a 4GB drive from about 1997 that I could easily part with, and there
> might be something else lying around, if that's not what you're
> looking for.
>
> Ian
>
Ian

I'm bringing the NICs to the meeting tonight.
To make it easier to recognize me, I'm Chinese, with glasses and will be 
wearing a green baseball cap :-)

Meng
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