From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 18 08:31:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22732 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:31:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from belzebub.net-gw.com (bulzebub.net-gw.com [202.185.254.12] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA22722 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 08:31:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from broker.alphaque.com (j2.bkj29.jaring.my [161.142.101.16]) by belzebub.net-gw.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id XAA10992; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:31:40 +0800 Received: (from dinesh@localhost) by broker.alphaque.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00948; Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:27:17 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh) Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 23:27:17 +0800 (MYT) From: Dinesh Nair X-Sender: dinesh@broker To: Timothy J Luoma cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: Making a custom picoBSD In-Reply-To: <199806180709.DAA07688@luomat.peak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Timothy J Luoma wrote: > I am just wondering, for a 486 which will be running as a router/firewall > connected to an Ethernet connection (and eventually probably a PPP > connection) would I be better off using -stable or -current or does it really > matter? well, picobsd's net flavour would be what you'd need. if you're using a 3com or a NE2000 card, then the picobsd out-of-the-box will do as that's what i'm using as an internet gateway here. if you're using a different NIC, then you'd need to roll your own from the scripts on andrzej's page or mine. Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) +=======================----oOO--(_)--OOo----=========================+ |for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b."| |done; done | +=====================================================================+ http://pgp.ai.mit.edu/htbin/pks-extract-key.pl?op=get&search=0x230096E9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message