Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 07:58:32 -0700 From: "Chuck TheMascot" <freebsdfan@hotmail.com> To: small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from Flash Message-ID: <F207RaDx70ttwxkGzq800002689@hotmail.com>
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>My ideal would be to have a web/ftp server that had all the tools >and instructions you would need. I'd be happy to host such a thing >at DCF, Inc. > >So, a person should be able to crack an I-Opener without a screwdriver. >Perform the keyboard gymnastics to get to a QNX prompt as it powers up, >dial up a PPP connection to the modem sitting on the DCF, Inc. server, >download a PicoBSD and the tool to flash it and go. I haven't been following the I-Opener scene for quite a while, at one point they had disabled the backdoor into the QNX from the BIOS (after I wrote a program to reflash the BIOS from QNX :) ). Some of the original I-Openers had cgi scripts that could be accessed from a web server to do just about anything, there was one guy who started to author a site to do just that minus needing to get into Qnx. (Un)fortunately they closed that hole pretty quickly. >To be a bit more elaborate, you could flash just a kernel and plug >some storage into the USB port, and have an almost real computer. > > > I'm currently building a replacement firewall using a Soekris net4501. > >I had been using an old 486DX50 running the firewall/NAT/router code >from Network Safety (www.safety.net), but replaced it with a Linksys >BEFSR11. Works just fine with my Cox@home, but I kinda miss the >control I had before. So I too have ordered a net4501. Soren says >the yield he's been getting is terrible, and I'm on backorder. Oh, >well... A friend bought a NetGear Cable/DSL firewall/NAT/router box at BestBuy for $30 (probably a billing screw up, list was $119) about the same time I bought the net4501 for almost 10x as much ... I just couldn't stand giving up the control (and toy factor). My 486DX2-66 is on it's last legs, it freezes during the BIOS memory test from time to time. Luckily it's still solid after it's been on for a few minutes. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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