I like the idea of going with OpenBSD a lot. I've never run BSD on any of my home systems until I got this whole mac with OS X thing. It's basically a FreeBSD/NetBSD distro with macs proprietary UI thrown on top.
I'll have to do more research on installing over the network, but OpenBSD sounds like a great plan. Thanks! Jim On Wednesday, January 9, 2002, at 05:08 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote: > 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]> >
