On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:55:19AM -0800, Jim Beard wrote: > >> I decided that it would be a fun project to turn my old P120 laptop > >>into a network analyzer type of a machine.
> I'm not sure what distro to use. I don't plan > on using any X at all. Any recommendations? If you're willing to try something different ... OpenBSD ... ports/net and ports/security have lots and lots of network/packet/ security analysis tools. And, for example, if you can use 2 ethernet cards, (I have a LinkSys I'm not using also) you could set up an ethernet bridge (it's easy -> $if0 up; $if1 up; brconfig bridge0 add $if0 add $if1 up). http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=brconfig for more info. It's also pretty easy to *completely* avoid X (many ports that would normally have X components can be built with FLAVOR=no_x11). -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
