Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:56:28 -0700 (PDT) From: papowell@astart.com To: mike@smith.net.au, papowell@astart.com Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG, kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it Subject: Re: picobsd micro nat box Message-ID: <199910241556.IAA27938@h4.private>
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> From mike@dingo.cdrom.com Fri Oct 22 21:43:43 1999 > To: papowell@astart.com > cc: kjc@csl.sony.co.jp, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: picobsd micro nat box > Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 21:37:13 -0700 > From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > > > > > FYI: WorldAxle, a small company in Japan, has announced PicoBSD based > > > > micro NAT products. > > > > > > this is mostly interesting. i need to get a couple to show during the > > > bridging/dummynet/picobsd talk! :) > > > > Yawn... I will post my 'NAT on a FLOPPY' demo product if there is interest... > > This is much more interesting, since the box is less than 6"x6"x3" > including mains power supply. > > Now, if there was just some English docco. 8) > Lets see... 1. Take one Lantronix, Emulex, Summix, Zimax, etc., print spooler box. These have 1 ethernet 10/100 mbps, 2 parallel port, 1 serial port interface. OK OK, these use a wall plug power supply. But the box I am looking at right now is 8inches wide, 1 inch high (thick), and 5 inches deep. 2. Add another ethernet controller. You can remove the parallel ports, or leave them there on the board and just not populate them. Only a cable header. 3. Update the kernel config file to include the second controller. 4. patch patch patch 3.1-Release... Ummm... Ahh... I mean 'update the software' to have the IPFilter Version X.Y code... make... install... compress kernel... make MFS... compress MFS... put into flash... test... Yep. 5. Add a simple 'IPNat' configuration section to the software. 6. Talk to marketing, etc etc etc I will not claim that the code changes are 'trivial' but if you are familiar with IPFilter then it takes about a day. The configuration and user interface is a bit more work. Ummm... the whole slamboodle, with IPNAt, and Print spooling, etc. etc. is about 982K, (compressed), uses about 8 Mbytes RAM. You can save the configuration in CMOS (Dallas makes some VERY interesting RTC, RAM chips just for this purpose). Patrick Powell Astart Technologies, papowell@astart.com 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D, Network and System San Diego, CA 92123 Consulting 619-874-6543 FAX 619-279-8424 LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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