"Michael W. Shaffer" wrote: > If you are interested, I just spent a couple days whittling > down a Debian system to provide WAN routing, dial on demand, > dns, dhcp, and firewalling all on one floppy. I have been looking > for an excuse to organize all my notes in a presentable manner, > and I'd be happy to try and answer any questions you might > have. My intention was basically what you stated, to produce > a simple box with absolutely nothing except the kernel, a few > selected daemons, and a couple other necessary things like > ash and init just for processing startup scripts. No interactive > or network logins, no logging except to console or remote, > everything runs from a 4MB ramdisk once booted. Using this > sort of setup you can provide quick and dirty emergency > reserve systems on just a floppy; set up new boxes with almost > no installation; or just make a really cheap routers with a > scavenged motherboard, 16MB RAM, a floppy, and ethernet cards > or a modem. I also have managed to fit a complete working > 'winserver' with dhcp and samba on one floppy, although this > one would really like to have some disk in the machine for > meaningful print spooling and file shares. I am very interested in your selection of daemons and tools that are needed on a firewall. Maybe we can share some ideas in this area.
We always use a harddisk for the firewalls (mainly for logging purposes) and protect the system files with tripwire. greets, Rene
