[MLB-WIRELESS] Floppy Based Router
Jason Tedesco
jason at jason.id.au
Tue Nov 5 12:36:22 EST 2002
For a floppy based router check out www.coyotelinux.com
Heard people getting it running with a 386, 12 meg RAM, and of course can
be run of a floppy disk.
Does support IPChains, not sure about IPTables, I haven't looked at it that
much. Check out the FAQ there anway.
Cheers,
Jason
At 11:25 AM 4/11/2002 +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 08:45:00AM +1100, Michael Weinbergs wrote:
> > Howdy all. I have been looking at "leaf" (http://leaf.sourceforge.net) and
> > "LRP" ( ) to try and find a basic kit to make a floppy based
>[...]
> > The documents are all there - but it is such a hotch-potch mess... I can't
> > make heads or tails of them..
>
>I haven't looked at leaf for ages, but last time I did look it seemed to be
>on track to becoming a very nice mini-distro. It grew out of many developers
>frustration with LRP's relatively closed/slow development, and it had
>largish group of very active developers who seemed to be co-operating well.
>I just looked at the leaf website and it seems that leaf is still going
>strong. Have a look at the "WISP" variant... wireless router distro.
>
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/mod.php?mod=userpage&menu=908&page_id=27
>
>Because LEAF was started as a more open/inclusive development of the
>original LRP project, it is a bit "fragmented", and includes multiple
>variants. However, dispite apearences, the developers do work together, and
>the various branches tend to correspond with different applications or
>experiments with the LEAF concept. The original LRP project had a modular
>design using tarballs, which should allow you to cut down or beef up things
>to meet your requirements and limitations.
>
>If you have particular requirements that none of the current LEAF branches
>seem to meet, I would encourage you to subscribe to the list and post a few
>queries. The guys there can offer heaps of advice, and if LEAF can't meet
>your requirements, they will happily point you to other alternatives out
>there.
>
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