On 28/11/2007, at 7:31 PM, RW wrote:
I think it would be a good idea to build a FW (OpenBSD 4.2+PF) with a
flash-card as a disk.
I see two related questions:
1) ¿How to make an OpenBSD regular instalation on flash-card?
This really is not a pf question. However you will find that CF looks
like an IDE HDD.
Just go ahead and install as if it was a hard disk.
2) ¿Is it needed a regular [P/S]ATA/SCSI disk if I plan no keep any
logs
on local in the FW?
No. Don't believe anybody that says you need to do special stuff with
CF. Some of us have tried, without success, to wear out a CF card.
Yes, I have been using the same two CF cards for my home firewall for
years. Alternating between them as I upgrade to the latest OpenBSD, so
that I can quickly fall back and have another backup if need be. I
can't kill them either.
At the moment I am using real SCSI disk in my firewall, but that is
only because my new Sun Blade 150 firewall is very picky about what
IDE drive it will work with (ie, none of my CF and only some disk
based IDE drives).
