>> I'm interested in finding out if (and how) people are using LTSP for
>> setup of non- workstation boxes for things like firewalls and gateways
>
>The time you waste on modyfing LTSP to fit your need is much more than
>it would take you to create a own CD.
>LTSP isn't meant to serve for those purposes. The design of LTSP isn't
>very secure. You would have to change the whole concept to create a
>secure firewall setup. It isn't worth the effort.

LTSP isn't really suitable for firewalls but Etherboot can be, has been
and is being used to boot ramdisk based firewalls like LRP, Coyote Linux
and floppyfw. See the contrib/ section of the source tree.

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