[MLB-WIRELESS] Debian Linux Router Distro

[Chris Samuel]

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Hi folks,

Had this passed to me by a client I'm doing some routing work for, and I 
thought it may be of interest to people here.

http://gate-bunker.p6.msu.ru/~berk/router.html

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My goal was to take a major Linux distribution (I prefer Debian) and make it 
boot from flash and work from filesystem in memory, but to do it very 
carefully to change as little as possible. What comes out is not a 
debian-based distribution but rather a boot wrapper for Debian proper. It is 
work in progress - use at your own risk. 

Have fun, feeback is welcome. 

Features

This is Debian, anybody with some previous debian experience will feel 
absolutely at home. More exactly, this is Debian stable with some packages 
from testing to add support for 2.5 kernels.

It boots from flash and works from memory. It boots in two stages: first a 
script from initrd copies the root filesystem from flash to tmpfs and makes 
tmpfs new root, then init runs as usual.

It comes with a custom packaged 2.4 kernel with extended networking 
capabilities. The custom kernel includes modules for many ethernet cards, 
which are autodetected during bootup.

The system can be upgraded and additional packages can be installed from 
regular Debian mirrors. New precompiled kernels can be installed as debian 
packages from our distribution site. There is no need to have a development 
system unless you have very special requirements for your kernels.

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- -- 
 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel.org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

 Need someone with 10 years of Linux, Unix, Networking
   & IT Security skills in Melbourne, VIC ? Email me.

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