Re: not using debian as firewall! (now off topic, to an extent)
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Huh? I missed the beginning of this thread, but Cisco makes a firewall
> based on a PC platform with a PCI bus!! It's the PIX firewall. The
> biggest advantage I can see is that it boots from flash RAM.
I've heard about diskless Linux systems. From what I know, you can put
the kernel and other things(?) onto an eeprom chip with an eeprom burner
(now that I found out we have em in the ece department, I'm gonna have to
try a few things out with this). The eeprom goes onto the NIC, and the
kernel loads from ROM. Voila, diskless (not quite flash rom, but still)
I think I should re-read some more HOWTO's before babbling on any further
though :)
*heads off to metalab to read more*
Do Svidonia,
Martin Held
heldm@ucs.orst.edu
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