Re: Telnet BBS Interface

[Luis de Santos <desantos@cfl.rr.nospam.com>]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:08:30 GMT, salfter@salfter.dyndns.org (Scott
Alfter) wrote:

>As for the security risk...as long as your "bridge" machine is not running
>Windows, you're most of the way there.  One possibility would be to dredge
>up an old 386 or 486, yank out the hard drive (or just unplug the cables to
>it...it'll probably be so small it's not worth reusing), and put a
>lightweight Linux system on a floppy disk.  The only moving part in normal
>use will be the power-supply fan, and power usage will be fairly low...not
>as low as your II, but still low by modern standards.


Damn, beat me to the question!  I was going to ask if there was a
Linux solution to all this - I really don't want to use my primary
(work) PC as the bridge.  I'm sure TCL could be used to accomplish
this.  Any ideas?

Luis