Re: [TCLUG:6569] Help in setting up headless firewall

["Serge M. Egelman" <serge@egel2.med.umn.edu>]

ooh, been there many times.  You don't know how many times I'll be sitting in
front of two pcs and I get annoyed that one isn't responding so I do a soft
reboot.  Then it takes about 5 seconds for me to figure out why the other
computer just rebooted.

serge

Dan Willenbring wrote:

> Maybe I missed some of the info, but couldn't you "borrow" a monitor from
> another PC, plug it into the 486, install away and put it back on the other
> PC after you have stuff working?
>
> I had kind of the same problem and got sick of switching the monitor cables
> around so I got a 15 pin switch box and a couple of extension 15 pin cables
> (about 25$ total), the setup lets me switch to a diff pc with the flick of a
> switch (though the kb and mouse are diff, I start rapping on the wrong one
> sometimes, hehe)
>
> Other than some minor shadowing when there are vertical bars on a light
> background, it works great.
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel M. Debertin [mailto:katdan@mninter.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 9:05 PM
> To: tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com
> Subject: [TCLUG:6569] Help in setting up headless firewall
>
> I have an old 486 Compaq Presario that I'd like to set up as a
> firewall/masquerading gateway. Preferably, I'd like to run it "headless",
> i.e. without monitor, keyboard or mouse, and administer it via telnet/ssh.
> My problem is that I need a monitor and keyboard, at least, to get RedHat
> onto the machine. I have two other Linux boxen -- is there a way to hook
> up one of the other machines to the 486 via the serial port, and somehow
> get it to send its screen output through there to a minicom program? Any
> other ideas? Even a crappy monitor is still too expensive for me, and I
> don't want to buy one just to use it once. Thanks for your help.
>
> ~Dan
>
> Dan Debertin                    | Never attribute to malice
> katdan@mninter.net              | what can be adequately explained
> Minneapolis, MN                 | by stupidity.
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