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Omega Mac

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Aug 16, 2013
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Hey, I'd appreciate any tips, pointers, links to guides etc. on any projects or ideas to use some old mac minis in terms of servers, maybe as router/vpn/firewall between macs and the ISP modern, is this a valid use case here to harden security or is the mac pretty good as is standalone?

Played with flashing routers in the past with tomato but wondered if a spare mac would allow more capabilities. It feel slick a shame not to do something with hardware and learn a few things along the way. Other ideas was to see if I could play with linux on one of the minis.

Bottom line what am I trying to achieve, a more defensive/protective setup, in part as project and jsut in case. Maybe I'm thinking about it all wrong. Second proejct coudl be as NAS because i have multiple spare macs doing nothing!

Other idea was to to be able to remote into a Mac mini in another location and tunnel or vpn that, not sure the correct way/term, essentially remote desktop to mac far away.

In the meantime I'll meander around this forum for any pre-existing chat on the subject.

I also found this searching which is kinda on point too https://talk.tidbits.com/t/best-way-to-run-a-vpn-server-on-a-mac-replacing-macos-server-s-vpn/20483

Thanks for any advice in advance.
 
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