On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:55, C. Falconer wrote: > m0n0wall > > I know its not linux, but it's also not windows ;) > > The distro is under 8 Mb, can boot off a CF/IDE adapter and supports all > sorts of cool router and VPN endpoint functions, as well as hostap mode for > wireless. > > Its three big faults are no support for dialup (not necessarily a bad > thing), currently no support for wireless devices faster than 11 Mbit > (prism chipset only, not atheros) and no support for wan load balancing > (that's the red zone for you IP Coppers) > > m0n0wall is based on FreeBSD 4.10 currently, and is soon to start moving to > 5.x (which will fix the atheros support) > > www.m0n0.ch/wall/ for more details > > and it runs on soekris and wrap embedded machines as well as generic PCs.
I use Freesco. Quoting from www.freesco.org: FREESCO is based on the Linux operating system and incorporates many of the features of a full operating system into software that fits on a single 1.44 meg floppy diskette. With FREESCO, you can make: a simple bridge with up to 10 Ethernet segments a router with up to 10 Ethernet segments a dialup line router a leased line router an Ethernet router a dial-in server with up to 10 modems (with multiport modems). a time server a dhcp server a http server a ftp server a dns server a print server (requires TCP/IP printing client software) FREESCO also incorporates firewalling and NAT which are resident within the Linux kernel to help protect you and your network. All of these features can be used in conjunction with each other or individually. Some technical info: - Minimum install requires a 386sx 16 with 8mb of ram. 16+mb of ram is recommended for enabling servers; - Modes of operation. ethernet, dialup, leased, bridge, RAS, Printer server. - Some of these modes can run at the same time as well as switching between dialup and ethernt modes; - 2.0.39 Linux kernel; - Support for up to ten network cards; - Support for up to five printers; - Support for up to ten modems, although only four regular modems. Support includes Unix 4 or 8 port modems; - FREESCO v.0.3.x can run entirely from ram. This requires at least 17+Mb; - FREESCO v0.3.x can run up to 4mb of packages on a floppy install; - Ident, DHCP, DNS, Print, Telnet, FTP, HTTP servers; - RAS (Remote Access Server) for dialin and nullmodem connections; - PPPoE, and PPtP clients; - Dynamic DNS support; - Limited support for SCSI hard drives; - FREESCO v0.3.x can be installed on any FAT 16/32 IDE drive on the primary or secondary controller and the primary or secondary drive; - The v0.3.2+ kernel has a 16k masq table and the icmp leak patch as well as mppe for PPtP users; - ISA PnP is now included into the floppy in v0.3.2. So network cards and PnP modems can be configured. Long live Freesco! Wayne
