Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 08:09:42 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: jgreco@solaria.sol.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: router floppy Message-ID: <m0tsAvG-000AniC@agora.rdrop.com>
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> From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> > Subject: Cool! An all new ROUTER FLOPPY > To: hackers@freebsd.org > Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 23:46:05 CST > > I spent some time messing around tonite and wound up being able to build a > nifty one-diskette "router floppy". > > It is just a proof of concept, probably won't work in < 8MB RAM, etc., but > if anyone wants to look at it, it's at http://www.rdrop.com/freertr/ isn't just a proof of concept: it's been in use for about 2 years, does run in 4 Meg (it's based on 1.1), and if I do say so myself, has a nice little configuration utility :-) The one problem it has is that if you have more than one SLIP connection drop, and they come back up in a different order, the routing tables don't get updated and packets start going out the wrong interfaces. As that's infrequent, it hasn't been a high priority to upgrade it to the 2.1 kernel (which has a workaround for that problem), although it's been discussed recently. -- Alan Batie ______ Freedom for me to be and do batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / only what *you* approve of +1 503 452-0960 \ / is no freedom at all. DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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