On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Yeti wrote:
> Can you suggest any good freely available network appliance packages?
>
OK, let's see...I haven't run any of these, but I think that the ideas
behind them are sound. Many of these may not have a great configuration
interface - which I suspect is a strong point of NetMax - but for personal
use, or for someone you provide support for, you can probably work around
that. If you wanted to distribute an appliance with a nice interface,
then some kind of script will probably do fine. (Just what is the
interface used on dists like RedHat and Slackware with the colored
screens? Curses based? It seems a bit better than straight text
interface.)
I know of one such which is called Share The Net, it used to be available
somewhere on hypermart site but I can't find the URL in my collection.
It sold for around $80 U.S. and was unabashedly Linux - the source was
available, as it should have been.
Soo...
The Linux-One-Disk-Svncviewer Floppy Disk (LODS) This is an SVGA version.
http://home.rochester.rr.com/specht/lods/index.html
floppyfw - Well, actually its NAT and IPChains on a floppy. I have
ignored this for some time since the old version used an old kernel and
didn't have IPChains. I see that they now use a modern kernel and
IPChains. I will be checking it out quite seriously soon.
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
Freesco - Claiming to be a software replacement for everybody's favorite
routers.
http://www.freesco.org
Home Site on LRP - The Linux Router Project is the basis of many of these
ideas - and probably of some of the ones you have to pay for. This is
more cookbook stuff which should allow someone with some patience to put
together their own networking appliance.
http://www.linuxrouter.org
Some Good stuff on LRP
http://lrp.ramhb.co.nz
A simple intro to the LRP:
http://www.sepa.tudelft.nl/webstaf/hanss/lprwork.html
Here are some links where you might find some possibilities which I have
not mentioned.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Distributions/Tiny_Linux/Floppy}
http://www.superant.com/smalllinks.html
There seems to be a lot of activity since I checked on this about a year
ago. I will be getting back into it, as I think this has great potential
for getting Linux into those places that are hesitant to migrate. Most of
the packages are configured (or can be) to NOT SUPPORT THE HARD DRIVE.
That means you plug in a floppy, reboot and run from RAM. Pull out the
floppy, reboot and you have your WinBox or whatever back, unscathed.
I hope this helps...
Bob Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trillium Technologies Ent.
General Santos City, Philippines
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