From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 14 14:33: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1BC37B502 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 14:33:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id 4B9816A901 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:32:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sv.Go2France.com [212.73.210.79] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.04) id A230F260086; Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:37:52 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001014232023.027e2d80@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: lconrad%Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:33:23 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: logistics for FreeBSD routers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We're thinking about proposing FreeBSD for project of 25 VPN/ipfilter/ipnat firewalls/routers over a wide area. The machines will be full PC's with disks and cdroms, a dual ethernet, (maybe triple ethernet for a little DMZ on some sites). We're confident we can build good machines but the logistics is less clear. We can sub-contract the on-site hardware replacement to a national repair outfit but are wondering what is the best way to re-build remotely the OS from cdrom or other approaches? I'd appreciate any ideas or pointer to how-to's to putting together a bootable cdrom image scripted to re-install install itself to a virgin disk, or even just run from cdrom and log (syslog and maillog) to disk. tia, Len ================== http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com: ISC BIND 8.2.2 p5 installable binary for NT4 http://IMGate.MEIway.com: Build free, hi-perf, anti-spam mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message