Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:27:58 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> To: Tony Li <tli@jnx.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, rls@mail.id.net, spork@super-g.com, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: T1 upgrade options? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970712142249.869P-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970711171713.00e01550@etinc.com>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, dennis wrote: > 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. What I've been toying with recently is the idea of a kernel with a MFS running in 16 or 24 MB RAM, booted from a floppy. You can get a boot floppy to configure the ethernet and establish basic routes, and then use fetch to retrieve things like gated and sshd into the MFS. A machine configured as 8 MB RAM, 8 MB swap and 8 MB MFS should have enough utilities to run a router which can be remotely administered. /* Daniel O'Callaghan */ /* HiLink Internet <http://www.hilink.com.au/>; danny@hilink.com.au */ /* FreeBSD - works hard, plays hard... danny@freebsd.org */
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