[Cialug] Router Building

[Chris Hilton]

Coyote did the trick.  5 minutes and I have a wonderful working router.
Now to pull the perfectly good 4GB disk out of the machine and put it
elsewhere..
Thanks!

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:31 -0500, 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/
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