Re: Soekris engineering "routers"

From: Chris Howells (howells_at_kde.org)
Date: 10/31/04

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    On Sunday 31 October 2004 01:45, LiQuiD wrote:
    > I've noticed a few people mention this company, http://www.soekris.com
    > in the list now. Their website claims they can be used with a compact
    > flash card. I'm curious regarding their usage with a flash card as a
    > hard drive. Has anyone successfully been able to install FreeBSD on one
    > of those boxes using a compact flash card?

    My current firewall is FreeBSD 5.3-beta7 running on a Celeron 700 with a pair
    of xl NICs running from a 128MB Compact Flash card via an IDE->CF convertor.
    I basically installed FreeBSD on a spare parition on my desktop, recompiled
    the kernel to remove stuff that I didn't need and copies directories
    like /usr, /bin etc over (very unscientific but I was in a rush and didn't
    have time to write a nice script to automate it yet).

    The CF card is mounted read only. rc.conf looks like this:

    hostname="gimli.middleearth"
    ifconfig_xl0="DHCP"
    ifconfig_xl1="inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00"
    sshd_enable="YES"
    varmfs="YES"
    tmpmfs="YES"
    populate_var="YES"
    pf_enable="YES"

    (unfortunately the stuff in the handbook regarding read only file systems is
    obsoleted by rcNG)

    and fstab

    # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
    /dev/ad0s1a / ufs ro 0 0

    You could very very easily fit it onto a 64MB CF card or maybe even 32 if you
    leave out some of the kernel modules, it just takes a bit more thought and
    time. 

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