On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 19:34, Ian Truelsen wrote: > I have been thinking about having my firewall box boot and run from a CD > so that there are no writable filesystems and there should be no need to > even have a HD. Can this be done with Gentoo or do I have to look at one > of the smaller distros? Also, does this seem like a good idea?
If your box serves only a firewall, a cd is overkill (and building it yourself mostly a waste of time), since you only need a kernel that supports iptables and your NICs, and some small executables. On freshmeat.net there are amble projects that serve your needs (try a search on 'floppy firewall'). I can recommend BBIagent from these (http://BBIagent.net/) which is very easy to set up. Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
