[Cialug] Router Building
Chris Hilton
cialug@cialug.org
Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:20:16 -0500
Coyote did the trick. 5 minutes and I have a wonderful working router.
Now to pull the perfectly good 4GB disk out of the machine and put it
elsewhere..
Thanks!
On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:31 -0500, Renegade Muskrat wrote:
> I'm also a fan of Coyote Linux. The machine i have which runs it is
> completely silent, no moving parts. Well, the floppy moves when the
> machine boots up, but i only reboot it about once per year.
>
> Recently i've been toying with the idea of moving to an OpenBSD
> firewall though. I really like pf, especially in comparison to ipchains
> and iptables that i'm familiar with on Linux (and whatever the Linux
> 2.0.x packet filter was called... once upon a time i was familiar with
> that one too). Getting OpenBSD small enough to fit on a floppy would be
> an "interesting" challenge. Which is why i haven't done it yet. I'd
> probably have to switch to booting from a read-only Zip disk or a CD.
>
> At 05:56 PM 10/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> >I've always had good luck w/ Coyote Linux.
> >Floppy based linux router, has either windows (GUI) or Linux (shell
> >script) configurator.
> >
> >http://www.coyotelinux.com/
> -- Dan
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