At 08:55 PM 09/21/2000 GMT, Matthew Grant wrote
>Dear All,
>
>There are a number of factors influencing this decision, the most
>important of which are:
>
>1) Debian will ceas doing security updates for their Slink distribution
>at the end of October. LRP Eiger is heavily based on this.
>
>2) The size of the update required for glibc, (I have made it) is
>impractical to apply using the current system of patching against LRP
>2.9.4 as an addon, and its size will make upgrading many routers
>impossible.
>
>Consequently, where Eiger LRP is used in situations where there is
>outside networking connections from the internet coming into it,
>firewalling and maybe routing should be converted to something else. If
>security is a major concern, this should also be done.
>
>As far as what to go to, I can recommend Debian Potato as a decent system
>to use as it is a modern Linux with lower CPU disk and memory
>requirements than other ditributions, and it is easy to keep up with the
>security updates. I am seriously looking at doinga router on a cutdown
>Potato Distribution with 2.4 kernel inside 45 MB of disk space.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Matthew Grant
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