[Cialug] Router Building

[David Champion]

Coyote is nice and simple, but somewhat limiting. I switched off it a 
few years ago because they were still running 2.0.x kernels at the time, 
and I needed more features. I was using it at home, at work, for dsmgg, 
and had set up a couple for friends.

While you can make changes "on the fly", Coyote is geared towards making 
a configuration with the configuration script, and writing the whole floppy.

-dc

Renegade Muskrat wrote:

> I'm also a fan of Coyote Linux. The machine i have which runs it is 
> completely silent, no moving parts. Well, the floppy moves when the 
> machine boots up, but i only reboot it about once per year.
> 
> Recently i've been toying with the idea of moving to an OpenBSD firewall 
> though. I really like pf, especially in comparison to ipchains and 
> iptables that i'm familiar with on Linux (and whatever the Linux 2.0.x 
> packet filter was called... once upon a time i was familiar with that 
> one too). Getting OpenBSD small enough to fit on a floppy would be an 
> "interesting" challenge. Which is why i haven't done it yet. I'd 
> probably have to switch to booting from a read-only Zip disk or a CD.
> 
> At 05:56 PM 10/27/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>  >I've always had good luck w/ Coyote Linux.
>  >Floppy based linux router, has either windows (GUI) or Linux (shell
>  >script) configurator.
>  >
>  >http://www.coyotelinux.com/