Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 21:06:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "laurens van alphen (craxx)" <freebsd.small@lists.craxx.nl> Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a CD for firewalls Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006292105060.36897-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <NCBBJKKDJIOIKDHNDOCAAEIFFJAA.freebsd.small@lists.craxx.nl>
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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
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