Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:03:49 -0400 From: Mark Conway Wirt <mark@intrepid.net> To: Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>, "John J. Paner" <jpaner@paradox.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd router Message-ID: <19990417090349.A30134@intrepid.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904171700340.327-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>; from Rowan Crowe on Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 05:04:21PM %2B1000 References: <199904161414.KAA11371@mail.paradox.net> <Pine.BSF.4.01.9904171700340.327-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
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On Sat, Apr 17, 1999 at 05:04:21PM +1000, Rowan Crowe wrote: > > If it's just going to be a router, consider booting it from floppy or some > other "spin while booting only" media. Even CD-ROM may be viable once it's > developed. You could also use a flash RAM IDE drive. There's no need to > rely on a device which spins constantly and is probably going to fail one > day while your machine is happily doing its own thing... > > I'm working on a boot-from-floppy router at the moment. :) P166 (clocked > down to 125MHz), 32Mb RAM. It's also running gated but it's not doing > anywhere near a full global table (1,000 routes on a bad day). picobsd has a router version of the boot floppy. Are you basing this on that? --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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