From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 29 21: 7: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B8F737B748 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:07:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e5U46sj57944; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:06:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "laurens van alphen (craxx)" Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a CD for firewalls In-Reply-To: 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, 29 Jun 2000, laurens van alphen (craxx) wrote: > Also, floppy disks tend to go bad once in a while and are painfully slow. Yes, that's why I don't use them anymore. :-) > We're currently looking into using CD's as a replacement. The are > cheap to replace and easy to build (keep an image on a bsd toaster). > Also the firewall itself will be standards-based (unlike LS120 or > Flashdisk) and can be swapped in and out with standard hardware, when > shit hits the fan; the firewall could be any desktop machine with a > cdrom and 3 or more NICs. How about diskless? pxeldr works and if you have at least one Intel NIC you have the necessary guts. Setting up netboot with PXE is super-easy and you can use as big a MFS as you have RAM to store it. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message