I've got a PIII machine installed as a disk-bearing terminal, but I want to have it grab root over the Internet. It is behind a router, which is connected to the cable modem. If I choose tcp at the "root from" prompt, type in fs IP, auth IP, and username, I'll eventually get prompted once again for username and then password; the terminal then boots pretty normally and works great. However, the time between when I type fs and auth IPs and the time I type the username and password is extremely long; I'd estimate something like 5 minutes or so. The same thing happened to me when I was using a vmware terminal from Hawaii, but I just chalked that up to the long distance and the virtual machine.
Are any of you booting real terminals from behind a router? At the moment, I don't have any ports forwarded, and the terminal gets its IP through DHCP. Should I set it up with a static IP and forward some ports? Which ports would I need? Thanks John
