I would like to hear about some of these tricks. Its sounds like fun.
I have also thought about controlling a robot with a soekris, but
wouldent you need more GPIO? or would you use a simple AVR program to
drive the servos etc?
On 8/27/07, Bill Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (1) (Almost) identical config for load-balancing and/or cases where
> the 4801 breaks down or needs to be pulled down for maintenance.
> CARP is tailored for such setups, but I couldn't get it working
> together with SSH (that was on OpenBSD 3.9, using the local
> ethernet interface for SSH logins - with a separate maintenance
> network it should give no problems).
>
> (2) In case you are offering external SSH access to any "live" device:
> set up the 4501 as an "SSH RAS" for your network. You'll have to log
> in twice or more to reach a particular machine, but at least it
> won't have to be directly exposed to the Big Bad World anymore.
> And you can play all kinds of tricks to make a cracker's life more
> difficult - fun!!
>
> (3) Use it for controlling a robot. Would require some real-time
> capabilities from the OS though. But if you've ever programmed an
> AVR directly, you'll know how incredibly comfortable high-level
> languages running with MB's rather than kB's of memory are. I'd very
> much like to give this a try, in case anyone's interested. Should
> provide Soekris Engineering with a great boost too. Robots are hot!
> (it seems).
>
> Bill
>
> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 10:14 -0500, Ronald L. Rosson Jr. wrote:
> > I currently have a NET4501 sitting on the shelf doing nothing since
> > it was replaced by my NET4801 as a firewall running pfSense.
> >
> > I am looking for a low cost solution to have this system do something
> > that can benefit my network that the NET4801 is not doing at the moment.
> >
> > any idea?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > -Ron
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