The first thing I did upon getting cable modem access in my apartment was to get an old Pentium 133 computer, put in two NICs, and fire up the OpenBSD 2.7 boot floppy. I did this for several reasons: first, because . . .
The first thing I did upon getting cable modem access in my apartment was to get an old Pentium 133 computer, put in two NICs, and fire up the OpenBSD 2.7 boot floppy. I did this for several reasons: first, because I heard that OpenBSD runs as a fast network node even with old hardware; and second, because I knew that it was probably the most secure operating system I can get in that price range. While some people may view OpenBSD security as overkill for a simple home cable modem setup, upon closer examination I found that OpenBSD's secure upon install feature did save my butt more than once; right now, the logfiles show that (literally) not an hour goes by without my system being scanned by someone on the internet.

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