Martin Hejl wrote: >Hi Joep, > > > >>perhaps be better to use bzip2 which is very efficient but a little >>trial turned out that gzip -9 gives a better compression than bzip2 -9. >> >> >The results of bzip compression depend highly on the input - sometimes >it's a lot better than gzip, sometimes it fails big time. There's no >general rule other than trying it under the specific curcumstances you >use it in, and finding out what's best. > > > >>I need the highest compression as the leafbox is a very old winchip (90 >>MHz) system with an MB that was made before USB was available so I have >>to use floppies. >> >> >Well, bzip generally tends to use tons of cpu power, so it may not be >the obvious choice for low power boards. > > > >>Well I think I have somewhere a somewhat more modern MB >>(K6 500MB!) with USB to load a small system with USB support with a >>floppy and get the packages from an USB stick.That's more than fast enough. >> >> >Well, other than switching cpus, you could look at switching boot media >- wether it may be two flopppies (one tends to get a lot on 2x1.6MB) or >switching to CF, CDROM or DOM, or something like that. Just because your >platform won't boot off USB, doesn't mean it's useless (none of the >boxes I use LEAF on can boot from USB, and they all use more than just a >single 1.44 floppy - Soekris, WRAP or Nexcom boxes are what I use, and >they work just fine). > >Martin > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ > > > Martin, you're a night owl just like me! But I like my firewalls lean no disks just a floppy (or an USB-stick) and memory.I'm a little security paranoid. I'll have a look at the soekris boards. Maybe i can make a very small real firewall - not the boxes they sell as routers-cum-firewalls - to tuck away somewhere in a cupboard. I don't know, however, if they are fast enough for heavy throughput (>10 MB) and do e.g. QoS (just for testing purposes). But I'm off to bed now ! Joep
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