On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Adam Wendt wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Chad R. Henry wrote:
>
> > On 6 Jul 2000, at 12:58, Adam Wendt wrote:
> >
> > > I'm putting together a box to be my firewall/gateway to the
> > > internet. Right now I only have a 85meg hard drive so I was hoping you
> > > guys could give me some suggestions on what distro/OS (FreeBSD, NetBSD
> > > OpenBSD etc..) might work for this purpose (and fit on 85megs). I'm on
> > > a dialup so I'll need PPP and some form of ipmasq/nat plus support for
> > > whatever network card I put in there (probably some old ISA card).
> > >
> > > Any ideas or suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > = Adam =
> >
> > Check out Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com). It's a floppy
> > based distro w/ PPP and ipchains/masq support.
>
> That might work if I had a floppy drive (which I don't) ;)
>
Another alternative is the Linux Router Project:
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
It's floppy based, but you may (should) be able to set up the machine
to do a remote boot to load the OS.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/NFS-Root.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Remote-Boot.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Diskless-HOWTO.html
jeff
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