You may want to look at what they're doing at the Linux Router Project.
It sounds like it has much of what you want.
http://www.linuxrouter.org/
73, Greg
kb0tdf
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Niall Parker
> Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 17:44
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Linux Y2K problems ! => small linux ?
>
>
> [snip]
> > > - Motherboard : ABIT PD5N Pentium-166(IBM)
> > > - Linux Redhat 4.2 with 2.0.35 kernel
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I don't believe that this is Y2K compliant... Considering that you
> > are two major releases and a couple of years out of date, I'm
> not surprised
> > if you got burned.
> >
> [snip]
> > Try upgrading to something more recent.
> >
> > > 73
> > > Cees Tool - PA3AES
> >
> > Mike
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>
> ... on a marginally related question ...
>
> Once upon a time, I could get a fair bit of functionality onto a single
> single floppy, making it practical to build radio
> routers/terminals without
> harddrives and minimal (< 8MB) RAM. When I looked at updating the
> cramdisks
> I've been using, I was stumped by the considerable increase in the size of
> the kernel generally and libc in particular ... going from an older libc5
> to glibc seems to need 5-6 times the memory !
>
> Any ideas on getting the current kernels and utils down in size ?
>
> ... Niall
>
