Re: [leaf-user] Problem with buildtool.pl and Config::General

2007-07-18 Thread Harry Lachanas
Hi guys, I've just run up a bare debian-40r0 machine and grabbed buildtool from cvs. I am using build env on debian etch also No problems except the compiler gcc I've installed gcc-3.4 When I try and run buildtool.pl build buildenv I get the following error

Re: [leaf-user] Another issue with buildtool.pl

2007-07-18 Thread Harry Lachanas
Hi again In my opiniion your env is screwed up, I sugest you delete all You also delete the user that builds bering-uClibc Make sure you have all prerequisites installed the Debian way, Install gcc-3.4 ( apt-get install gcc-3.4 ) Do a cvs again on a new user Open file

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Harry Lachanas
One thing I've always hated was to search netfilter.org and find patches or whatever, True, but there is no way around :-( Kernel 2.6 has most of the modern goodies, but it is substantially larger than 2.4 and it will be very difficult to fit a working system on a single floppy.

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Kwon
Lets be honest who needs a floppy nowdays ( I think they are very difficult to find and very expensive ) I don't use a floppy to boot, but however I use a floppy to save my config files. My Leaf System: Asus P5S-VM MB, AMD-K6 400MHz, CD Rom (to boot), 128mb RAM, 3 D-Link NICs, floppy

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread J.L. Blom
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:51 +0300, Harry Lachanas wrote: One thing I've always hated was to search netfilter.org and find patches or whatever, True, but there is no way around :-( Kernel 2.6 has most of the modern goodies, but it is substantially larger than 2.4 and it

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread giovanni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.L. Blom wrote: ... Using a floppy is the only way old systems can be used as a firewall (except using a HD, which in my opinion is more vulnerable, or a CD, which is cumbersome when you want to change things). Joep I used many times a Compact

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread J.L. Blom
Giovanni, How do you do that? (short of making some hardware to connect an USB-stick or flashcard to an IDE interface). Joep On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:31 +0200, giovanni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.L. Blom wrote: ... Using a floppy is the only way old systems

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Luis.F.Correia
Hi there -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.L. Blom Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:46 AM To: giovanni Cc: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net; Erich Titl; Harry Lachanas Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread giovanni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.L. Blom wrote: Giovanni, How do you do that? (short of making some hardware to connect an USB-stick or flashcard to an IDE interface). Joep Usually I buy some very simple interfaces (Compact Flashes are designed to be phisically compatibles

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Erich Titl
Hi Folks J.L. Blom wrote: Giovanni, How do you do that? (short of making some hardware to connect an USB-stick or flashcard to an IDE interface). Joep I have a handful of DOM's we don't need anymore. Conditions: 1) The mail cost, e.g. dont't consider this outside Europe 2) A free beer

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Harry Lachanas
J.L. Blom wrote: Giovanni, How do you do that? (short of making some hardware to connect an USB-stick or flashcard to an IDE interface). Joep On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:31 +0200, giovanni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.L. Blom wrote: ... Using a floppy

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread J.L. Blom
Everybody, Thanks for the advice. I found I have a supplier round the corner!. I will go out and get me one. Thanks for all the advice. Joep On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 13:05 +0200, giovanni wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J.L. Blom wrote: Giovanni, How do you do that?

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lets make a poll to find out how many of us are booting bering from a floppy and decide from there. I still favor use Bering 1.2 floppies. I like the security of the write-protect slider. And part of the idea about Linux, and Bering firewalls in particular, is repurposing old hardware for a

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lets make a poll to find out how many of us are booting bering from a floppy and decide from there. I still favor use Bering 1.2 floppies. I like the security of the write-protect slider. And part of the idea about Linux, and Bering firewalls in particular, is repurposing old hardware for a

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Marko Nurmenniemi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets make a poll to find out how many of us are booting bering from a floppy and decide from there. I still favor use Bering 1.2 floppies. I like the security of the write-protect slider. And part of the idea about Linux, and Bering firewalls in particular, is

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Bob Gregory
-Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 6:29 PM To: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question Lets make a poll to find out how many of us are booting bering from a floppy and decide from there. I still favor use Bering 1.2

Re: [leaf-user] Extended MARK Target Question.

2007-07-18 Thread Kwon
Lets be honest who needs a floppy nowdays ( I think they are very difficult to find and very expensive ) Brand new floppies from my supplier eprom.ca: FD-PAN-144 PAN 1.44 FD (BEIGE) Yes $8.00 each FD-PAN-144-BLACK PAN 1.44 FD (BLACK) Yes $8.00 each FD-TOS-144-USB-BLK TOSHIBA 1.44 USB EXT. FD

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Calvin Webster
I too use floppy boot disk for several firewalls, one boots off hard disk with floppy backup. Other rack-mount boxes I've yet to setup to run off the internal 64MB flash disks. --Cal Webster On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:11, Bob Gregory wrote: -Original Message- Sent: Wednesday, July 18,

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread giovanni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets make a poll to find out how many of us are booting bering from a floppy and decide from there. I still favor use Bering 1.2 floppies. I like the security of the write-protect slider. And part of the idea about

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Christian Villa Real Lopes
I tottaly agree with you. I had hard times with floppies. For a professional setup I recommend USB flash or compact flash. If your configs don't change a lot like mine burn a CD. Why don't support kernel 2.4 and give a new branch for kernel 2.6 ? giovanni wrote: Some times ago, I rebooted an

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Erich Titl
Christian Villa Real Lopes schrieb: I tottaly agree with you. I had hard times with floppies. For a professional setup I recommend USB flash or compact flash. If your configs don't change a lot like mine burn a CD. Why don't support kernel 2.4 and give a new branch for kernel 2.6 ?

[leaf-user] Webpage Bering-uClibc 3.x Installation Guide

2007-07-18 Thread Patrick Andersson
Hello! I'm trying to convert my firewall from floppy to CF. I got a CF from my brother and bought a IDE-CF adapter. My floppies doesn't seem to last more than a year. The problem I have is with the webpages. On page Create a bootable IDE-CF http://leaf.sourceforge.net/doc/buci-ide3.html#id2711084

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Trev Peterson
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 22:11 +0300, Bob Gregory wrote: My production firewall boxen are still running off diskettes. The downside compared with a CF/IDE box I use for testing is (1) slower boot and (2) limited space for packages. But as long as the required packages fit on a diskette, this is

Re: [leaf-user] Webpage Bering-uClibc 3.x Installation Guide

2007-07-18 Thread KP Kirchdoerfer
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 23:55:06 Patrick Andersson wrote: Hello! I'm trying to convert my firewall from floppy to CF. I got a CF from my brother and bought a IDE-CF adapter. My floppies doesn't seem to last more than a year. The problem I have is with the webpages. On page Create a

Re: [leaf-user] Webpage Bering-uClibc 3.x Installation Guide

2007-07-18 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
Use http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm instead of http://csislabs.palomar.edu/Student/Utilities/boot622.exe And syslinux can be gotten from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ Cheers Ad -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: [leaf-user] Webpage Bering-uClibc 3.x Installation Guide

2007-07-18 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
The IDEINFO is used to give you the correct settings for C/H/S (Cylinders/Heads/Sectors) from the CF card (not being a real HDD you still need this info for you BIOS settings) when you chose to make the CF card the boot device. generally (and I say that with a cringe on my face) you should be ok

[leaf-user] ipsec setup

2007-07-18 Thread Adam Niedzwiedzki
Hi guys, This has been fun dragging my old leaf boxes up to the new builds. I was running openvpn, and figured I'd upgrade to openswan (ipsec) for my vpns. The guide on the site Configuring openswan(ipsec) talks about openswan.lrp (but can't find it) so I'm guessing it's now ipsec.lrp. The guide

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Kwon
Some times ago, I rebooted an old LRP floppy based Firewall (with an uptime of 2 years) only to discover that the floppy has gone. From that moment I use Compact Flashes. My 2 cents Do you mean you don't have another backup of your floppy disk?

Re: [leaf-user] The old floppy question

2007-07-18 Thread Kwon
Why don't support kernel 2.4 and give a new branch for kernel 2.6 ? Basically that is what I'm aiming at :-) As for the 2.6.x branch, the ability to save configuration files to a floppy should also be supported, thanks! Leaf user since 2002 and a very happy customer indeed! ;-)