On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 21:30 -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > For some time now, I've been experimenting with the implementation of Linux > as a cheap yet powerful routing and firewall solution. I've found that a > basic Linux platform can be rather easily customized to provide extremely > cheap and powerful firewalls for any home or small office environment. I've > decided to share my knowledge in a tutorial series on my personal web space. > The tutorial currently consists of all the primary steps in configuring a > usable firewall, from installation to configuration. I intend to add more > steps as time progresses, but at this point I would like to begin to share > my work and get some peer reviews from other users out there. I hope I can > get lots of good feedback from viewers, so please don't hesitate to comment. > > And now, I present my tutorial on creating personal Linux firewalls: > http://www.cyberdogtech.com/random/debian_firewalls Just tonight, a group that has customized Debian for a Linsys NAS-like device. Their docs might help too. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Temporarily not of Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
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- To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Announcing an intention to produce an armeb port of Debian
- From: Debonaras Project Lead <leader@debonaras.org>
- Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:45:26 +0930
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1/ Who are we? The Debonaras project (http://www.debonaras.org) is a group of Linux developers who have created the beginnings of a big-endian ARM (armeb) port of Debian. We have built 2500+ stable packages so far (see http://ftp.debonaras.org). Debonaras is targeted primarily at consumer devices (such as the Linksys NSLU2 or Synology DS101) with large attached storage (e.g. the ability to attach a USB hard disk). The first target device is the Linksys NSLU2, and we have had big-endian arm Debian running on that device (and building armeb Debian packages) for about a month now. We also have big-endian arm Debian running on other armeb devices (including custom hardware built by a member of the core team). 2/ What are our plans? Our plan is to compile at least 95% of Debian for armeb, to produce an armeb debian-installer port, to put in place a set of buildd machines that can keep up with unstable, to have a number of our core team members become Debian Developers (we have two applications waiting for an AM to be assigned) and then gain enough Debian Developer support to put forward a proposal for an official armeb Debian port (and then officially rebuild all the packages). In essence, we plan to meet the requirements set out in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/08/msg00009.html and then hope to be assimilated by Debian. Most of the core Debonaras developers come from the NSLU2-Linux project (http://www.nslu2-linux.org). 3/ What is the potential user base for an armeb port of Debian? The NSLU2-Linux project has over 4300 subscribers on the mailing list, attracts over 30000 hits on the http://www.nslu2-linux.org website per day, has provided over 12000 custom firmware downloads in the last three months, and manages two package download systems (one for the vendor-firmware-compatible 2.4 kernel custom firmware, and the other for the OpenEmbedded-based 2.6 kernel custom firmware) which serve up 400GB/month of package downloads from four mirrors across the world). Every one of those 12000 custom firmware downloads is a potential user of an armeb Debian port, just for the single NSLU2 device. 4/ Why do we want to port Debian to big-endian ARM? The NSLU2 bootloader starts the kernel in big-endian mode, and the on-board ethernet driver modules currently also run in big-endian mode. A number of our developers have other reasons (related to networking performance of other ixp-based non-consumer devices) for requiring an armeb port. Note that there has already been success in targeting little-endian arm Debian to the NSLU2, but it requires additional hardware (it currently doesn't support the on-board ethernet port). 5/ How does this relate to Emdebian? We are in contact with a number of Debian Developers from debian-arm, and have discussed our plans with Wookey from Emdebian. We believe that Debonaras targets a different set of devices from Emdebian (Debonaras intends to provide a full port of Debian targeting devices with large attached storage). 6/ Why are we announcing this now? We are not looking for publicity (please don't post this to slashdot). We do want to make the Debian developer community aware of what we are doing. We are looking for help from interested Debian Developers to get a buildd system up and running and building the rest of the Debian packages from source for armeb. 7/ How do I install Debian on my NSLU2 today? See http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/DebianSlug/OpenDebianSlug 8/ What does "Debonaras" stand for? Debian On NAS And Routers And Stuff -- Signed, the Debonaras and NSLU2-Linux core team. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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