Very cool. My Coyote decided to go hide this morning so reverted to the
e-smith box. For some reason, all of a sudden I can't connect to the
internet through Coyote. My isp sometimes stops responding and/or
disconnects me so I am used to having to redial, but if that's what
happened, Coyote does not appear smart enough to redial. I did restart the
system and Coyote dialed out and SEEMED to connect (no visible indication
on screen though...) but still nothing. So, either my old hardware has a
problem (likely) or Coyote does. More reading is in order and I may just
stay with e-smith if I can't figure it out.
Regards, Jim Darrough
At 04:21 AM 4/19/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>I have a 486/33 16MB OpenBSD IPFilter/NAT box. Installed with 1 floppy and
>ftp onto < 100MB disk space. Everything but /var mounted ro. 3c509 PNP
>ether and 56k v9.0 ISA internal modem. OpenBSD's ppp tool has built in
>NAT and packet filter, as well as port redirection. It also supports
>mutilink and pppoe and a lot of other stuff. Read more about it at:
>http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp
>I only had to edit 6 files after the install to set it up as my router,
>and 3 of those were changing a 0 to a 1.
>
>On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:50:34PM -0700, Jim Darrough wrote:
> > I just installed a Coyote dialup router using an old Compaq Presario
> 833cds
> > (486dx-33) with a floppy, an old NE2000 clone, and a 33.6K USR internal
> > modem. Seems to be working just fine!
> >
> > Regards, Jim
> >
> > At 09:40 PM 4/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Could you describe your set up?? I'm using a FreeBSD 486 as a
> > >firewall/gateway. Is that about the same thing?
> > >
>
>I guess the main difference is that coyote is a floppy disk, with very
>limited (read 'no') userland, whereas you and I have an OS. Can coyote
>even mount a disk? I kind of like to be able to use perl to parse my
>logs and send me mail if anything funny is going on. It's also nice to
>be able to ssh to it, but that's just my opinion.
>
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>a disk, at least for logging purposes?
Jim Darrough, ARS KI7AY
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