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dkwok

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Apr 6, 2001, 8:19:30 PM4/6/01
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I have been using linuxrouter, www.linuxrouter.org, for my home and office firewall/NAT for 1 year. It has been doing just fine with 486DX66 machine. Can NetBSD produce something like that and can be fitted into 1 floppy disk?
 
David Kwok

Todd Whitesel

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Apr 7, 2001, 7:02:06 AM4/7/01
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> I have been using linuxrouter, www.linuxrouter.org, for my home and office
> firewall/NAT for 1 year. It has been doing just fine with 486DX66 machine.
> Can NetBSD produce something like that and can be fitted into 1 floppy disk?

Certainly. However, what's available in the source tree is oriented towards
install utilities. Look in src/distrib/i386/floppies, especially the 'rescue'
directories.

The machinery is actually quite easy to customize -- I've built "telnet boot
floppies" that were really just stripped-down install floppies and some goo.

Once you are familiar with how it works, it literally takes just a few hours
to create a custom self-contained boot floppy that does whatever you want.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ best.com

Manuel Bouyer

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Apr 7, 2001, 6:09:55 AM4/7/01
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On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 10:19:30AM +1000, dkwok wrote:
> I have been using linuxrouter, www.linuxrouter.org, for my home and office firewall/NAT for 1 year. It has been doing just fine with 486DX66 machine. Can NetBSD produce something like that and can be fitted into 1 floppy disk?

I think it's doable, I even think someone is working on this (but
I don't have pointers, sorry).

Anyway I prefer to have hard disks in my routers, to keep log :)

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Cliff Crawford

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Apr 7, 2001, 9:04:29 AM4/7/01
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* dkwok <dk...@iware.com.au> menulis:
> Thank you for that info. Excuse me for not knowing much about the src tree.
> I have looked around there was only 3 files in the CVS directory under
> bootfloppy-small. How do you prepare a floppy disk from there? Could give me
> any pointer or any article I should read to understand this topic?

You might be interested in the NetBSD/i386 Firewall project, at
<http://www.dubbele.com/>. It does need a small amount of hard drive
space though, but maybe you can modify it to fit the stuff you need
on one floppy.


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dkwok

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Apr 7, 2001, 8:36:17 AM4/7/01
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Thank you for that info. Excuse me for not knowing much about the src tree.
I have looked around there was only 3 files in the CVS directory under
bootfloppy-small. How do you prepare a floppy disk from there? Could give me
any pointer or any article I should read to understand this topic?

David Kwok

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