diskless gateway/firewall ?
I'm setting up a gateway/firewall at home. This machine will serve
mainly as a node through which I can do remote-wake-ups of my
home workstation. (To build remote-wake-up packets you need root
access, which may not always be available when I'm away from
home.) The firewalling stuff, if any, will be a bonus feature.
For this to make sense, the gateway machine has to be quiet (a noisy
gateway would defeat the purpose of having APM enabled on my workstation).
I plan to use for this a fanless, diskless 486DX4/100 with 8M RAM. The
idea being that I can load Debian from floppy (a la "rescue disk"),
set up networking/firewalling, and install (in RAM) a setuid-root
remote-wake-up binary. Then if I want to access my home workstation
remotely, I login to the gateway and run the remote-wake-up binary.
Anyone have experience with diskless installations? Any suggestions/hints?
cheers,
chris
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