From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 24 17:13:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA23146 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aaka.3skel.com (aaka.3skel.com [207.240.212.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA23094 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 17:12:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from danj@3skel.com) Received: from fnur.3skel.com (fnur.3skel.com [192.168.0.8]) by aaka.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id UAA07148; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:12:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (danj@localhost) by fnur.3skel.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA07666; Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:12:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 20:12:10 -0500 (EST) From: Dan Janowski To: John Woodruff cc: Robert Watson , Joe McGuckin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-Reply-To: <34F351A5.167EB0E7@us.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, John Woodruff wrote: > Joe McGuckin wrote: > > I think Cisco does something similar to this for their > > 'out-of-the-box' configuration. > > Yes, almost exactly. It's truly a wonder to behold. See: > http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios111/tech1.htm > for the inside details. Cisco has it easy, the PROM is exact for the box it's in, vastly minimizing the array 'kernel' services. BTW, doesn't the Cisco come with a pre-burned PC-Card memory mard that has all the IOS stuff on it? We are not talking about loading system software, with Cisco we are merely talking about configuring it, aren't we? Dan -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message