Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:31:51 -0800 From: Glen Gross <ggross@symark.com> To: "'Andrew Hesford'" <ajh3@hecubus.bsdonline.org>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: compress bootdisk Message-ID: <01C09BE0.BE1D1350.ggross@symark.com>
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Please let me know if you have any info on how to set up such a diskless firewall. In particular, would such a box be able to run NAT and simulate linux's IP masquerading? I am in the same boat... I have a 4.1rc2 box that is the most reliable box on my home network, but I am still running Linux on the firewall box to take advantage of the ease of the IP masquerading features. Regards, Glen M. Gross Unix Technical Support Specialist Symark Software 5716 Corsa Avenue, Suite 200 Westlake Village, CA 91362 http://www.symark.com pp-support@symark.com pb-support@symark.com Main: 800-234-9072 or 818-865-6100 Main fax: 818-889-1894 On Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:54 AM, Andrew Hesford [SMTP:ajh3@hecubus.bsdonline.org] wrote: > This is interesting. I've been messing around with a diskless freebsd > firewall, and I've always had tight constraints with loader and the > kernel. I've all but given up due to lack of time and too many failures, > and have resorted to using linux. > > kgzip sounds promising, though. What do I need to do, just `disklabel > -Brw` the diskette, newfs it, and dump a kernel.gz in the root > directory? > > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:41:19PM +0000, Ian Dowse wrote: > > In message <20010221020530.A41129@cec.wustl.edu>, Andrew Hesford writes: > > >kzip and kgzip strip the kernel of its symbols, so that it is > > >ultra-compact for rescue and install disks. > > > > More importantly, kgzip produces an ELF kernel image that can be > > loaded directly by the bootblocks. To boot a kernel compressed with > > gzip requires loader(8) which takes up 100-200k of disk space. > -- > Andrew Hesford - ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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