From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 19:48:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2F137B718 for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:48:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsduser@earthlink.net) Received: from bsdbox.gregory.earthlink.net (1Cust153.tnt1.warrenton.va.da.uu.net [63.20.81.153]) by swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19830; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:48:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:47:42 -0500 (EST) From: freebsduser X-Sender: freebsduser@bsdbox.gregory.earthlink.net To: "Andrew C. Hornback" Cc: John Telford , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: What name brand would you buy for a firewall/router ? In-Reply-To: <002701c0b1b2$bca50400$0e00000a@tomcat> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I don't see much written about PicoBSD (runs off a floppy ?) how > > reliable/configurable do you find it ? > > Thanks, John. > > I haven't heard that much about PicoBSD, but, I'm sure that it would be > worth exploring for a system like this. Only problem I see there is that > floppy media may be more prone to failure than HDD media. I've played with PicoBSD and once you have a functioning system you don't need the floppy and can remove it from the drive (you will need it the next time you boot). You can also duplicate your configuration to multiple floppies so if one dies you can just insert another. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message