[luau] HDD-less Linux

[MonMotha]

Current specs:

Kernel: 2.4.19-pre6 (I've got another one on 2.4.19-pre7, but it's 
proven to be a bit unstable), all the netfilter patches you can cram in
LibC: uClibc-0.9.11
IPtables: CVS as of about a week or so ago
Busybox 0.60.2
IPRoute2 (latest)
iputils (latest)
udhcp 0.9.6

The kernel supports vlans, trunking (bonding), ethernet bridging, and 
QoS.  The appropriate userspace utilities are also there.  It would make 
a great "demo disk" to show off what a linux firewall can do (ever 
wanted to download 5 ISOs and play UT with the same ping as when you 
weren't downloading?  it's quite possible...).

No SSH on it yet as I haven't gotten around to compiling it and making 
it fit (the floppy is getting to be a bit tight as the kernel is rather 
large with all the networking code).  It was obviously designed as a 
floppy router/firewall.

I'll put the image up for all to get when I can fix my server.  Until I 
get it back up (which will probably be late friday or maybe tuesday if 
not friday), I can send it to people upon request in a personal email.

I also have a utilities disk that has a dialog based frontend on it, 
though it mostly just reads what's in /proc for you.

--MonMotha


Dustin Cross wrote:
> I am interested!  What kernel are you using?  What tools do you have on the
> disk?  SSH?  IPtables?
> 
> Dusty
> 
> 
>>If you need any help doing HDD-less linux distros, don't hesitate to
>>ask  me as I've been working on that quite a bit recently.  I've got a
>>complete system with basically every networking tool you could ever
>>want  (including full ipv6 support) on one barely full floppy disk, and
>>that's  without tweaking the linking and compiler optimization for
>>size.
>>
> 
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