Re: [SLUG] CD-Based Firewall

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Thu Nov 04 2004 - 22:50:23 EST


On Thursday 04 November 2004 10:23, James Miller wrote:
> Can't you just make a bootable CD, using the Coyote floppy as as the
>source?
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
>To: <slug@nks.net>
>Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 7:23 PM
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] CD-Based Firewall
>
>> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:26:10AM -0500, chris lee wrote:
>>> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:31:42 -0500, Paul M Foster
>>>
>>> <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote:
>>> > I have a Coyote firewall that runs on an old 486 and boots from a
>>> > floppy. This machine will not boot from a CD-ROM. I'm looking to
>>> > replace
>>> > it with a machine that will boot from a CD-ROM. Because of this, I'm
>>> > looking for a firewall distro that boots from a CD-ROM and _does not
>>> > require either a floppy or hard drive_. In particular, it must handle
>>> > PPPoE, but needn't have anything other than SSH and/or web interfaces
>>> > for management. Since we're talking about a machine with no hard drive
>>> > or floppy, it has to be capable of being modified on another machine,
>>> > and then a new CD burned when one wants to modify the configuration.
>>> > Let
Paul,

If it is a matter of the CDRom and HDfor the 486, I have a couple of those old
units lying around here somewhere. You can have them for postage or pick
them up in New Port Richey.

Bob S.
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