Re: [ccp4bb]: Firewire - Linux - upgrade of a Mandrake 7.2 box

[Swen Tromm <tromm@ebi.ac.uk>]

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I fully agree - It's certainly not a CPP4 question - however: I am fare 
away of being a fire wall expert, but you should at first at the following 
URL:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Firewall-HOWTO.html

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Fred. Vellieux wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:05:44 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Fred. Vellieux <vellieux@ibs.fr>
> To: ccp4bb@dl.ac.uk
> Subject: [ccp4bb]: Firewire - Linux - upgrade of a Mandrake 7.2 box
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> Hi Folks,
> 
> A question pertaining, NOT to CCP4 per se, but to computing:
> we currently have our Linux box operating Mandrake Linux 7.2.
> At the time, Firewire (IEEE 1394?) was not supported.
> The latest Mandrake distribution indicates automagic recognition...
> But we do not wish to install ML8 on this machine.
> So if any of the gurus out there know:
> Is there any way to upgrade our box so that we could use
> a PCI-Firewire card (so as to be able to use a firewire disk
> after synchrotron trips)?
> Thanks a lot folks (in advance).
> 
> Fred.
> 
> PS Hope this can be of interest to other CCP4 users!
> 
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