About re-inventing the wheel. The wheel of the single-floppy-router has been invented many times. Here's one I've had good experiences with: How does setting up a router in 5 to 10 minutes sound? Use an old 486 with a floppy disk and two NICs and at least 8 MBs of RAM and go!; try www.freesco.org Works fine as a NAT router with ppp and one NIC or with two NICs, optional other features like DHCP or bridging, etc. It's not a firewall, but hey; isn't that the next stop for the packets on their way into your network? I've had some good experiences with it for a router solution in a small home-network (student houses) but also in larger networks (up to some 30 PC's).
Greetz, Mythiq. ----- Original Message ----- From: Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Building Debian firewall > On Mon, 28 May 2001, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > Befoer you do too much reinventing of the wheel, you might want to look more > > closely at some of the existing "small Linux" distributions that are geared > > to floppy-based routers/firewalls. The Debian-derived ones I know of are: > I know these distributions and will have a look at them, if time comes. > > > Though derived from Debian (Slink), they now depart from it quite a bit, > > mainly for these reasons: > > > > the Debian packaging standards require inclusion of a lot > > of stuff inappropriate to floppy-based systems > > (e.g., man pages and other documentation) > > the Debian base relies on apps that are unsuited for > > single-purpose, one-floppy quasi-embedded > > systems (e.g., Perl) > To make it clear: I really don't want to build a new Debian based > distribution. I'm interested in a set of scripts which build a floppy disk > image using some configuration files (for DSL, ISDN, PPP or what else) which > is ready to run as router. For sure this disk image has no man pages or > perl and this stuff. > <<snip>> if there is a gain from > > piggybacking this onto the stock Debian distribution system or not. > I have to admit that I havn't dealt with this subject before but if I would > have time I would go the way I wanted to describe. > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
