From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 11 14:18:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA03956 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:18:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03951 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 14:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA13922; Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:25:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970711171713.00e01550@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 17:17:16 -0400 To: Julian Elischer , Tony Li From: dennis Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Cc: rls@mail.id.net, spork@super-g.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:56 AM 7/11/97 -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: >Tony Li wrote: >> >> Yes, they are small, but even a 4MB card is plent to run routing services >> off of. There are several FreeBSD distributions out there that are >> "router floppies", where you fit everything you need onto a 1.4MB disk >> (except for gated, which is our problem). So you'd be in heaven with 4MB. >> >> Well, you're better than I am. ;-) In trying to get kernel, gated, basic >> Unix utilities, and remote access utilties (what, you wanna WALK to your >> router?) into a single place, I came up a wee bit bigger. >> >> In any case the flash disks run up to 190MB or so. Enough for a >> distribution, but not enough to have things vanilla. >> >> Tony > >Use 'crunch' like the boot floppy does. >you can fit almost the whole of /bin, and /usr/bin in 4MB using that. > You guys crack me up! I get more video and ethernet card failures that hard drive failures on a router........why not try to build one without a power supply....that will really increase your uptime! Most ppl can't keep freebsd up anywhere near as long as 1/10th the MTBF of an IDE drive, so what are you beating your brains out for? Dennis