On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, [ISO-8859-1] Marcelo E. Magallón wrote: > Hi, > > A couple of people here (including myself) are trying to set up a > router (IP forwarder really) based on Debian. We have an old 486 (it's a > Cyrix 486-40) with 4 MB of RAM for the router. According to what I have found > on the web, this should do the work
. > > We have installed Debian using the lowmem procedure (kudos to the developers, > very very cleaver!) and it works. I replaced the kernel with a custom version > that has EVERYTHING stripped (I mean it... this thing has the necessary > network functions, netcar d, IDE, ELF and nothing else) and uses as little memory as possible. I started stripping other things too, for example, there aren't virtual terminals, the only way to get in is via telnet or rescue floppy. setserial is gone, and I was thinking of disabli g the syslog daemon, too. > > The problem I have right now (and this showed up long before I started > tweaking the computer) is that the machine reboots randomly. For example, I > was using ae to edit /etc/init.d/network to add a second interface, and the > machine rebooted. I was lookin g for /etc/modules to remove the modules for the ethernet card and the machine rebooted. Sometimes the machine boots, stays there for a while minding its own bussiness and it suddenly reboots. Sometimes it sits there for a little longer. In fact, I used d select to fetch some upgraded packages via ftp, and it completed successfully (even installed perl... which I didn't want, WTH!) Are you running a software watchdog? This with some combinations of kernel and/or libc seem to cause problems this way. This is from personal experience and not confirmed. ---------------- http://www.sound.net/~wpmills/ ----------------- : W. Paul Mills : Bill, I was there several years ago. : : Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. : Why would I want to go back tomorrow? : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Where were you! : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Linux: Tomorrow's operating system, : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : here, today. : : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : ---------------------------------------- : : compuserve 70023,1750 : #define MY_TRUE_LOVE computer : -------------- http://homepage.midusa.net/~wpmills/ ------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
