> I'm not sure I understand why someone wants a 2.6 kernel to run a > standalone LEAF/Bering firewall. Can't find an old box and needs > the hardware support for a box that's entirely too powerful? ;-) > I use LEAF for more powerful tasks that home router/storage, and we have more than 400Mbps on some LEAF routers. I don't use any other distro on them by some reasons: 1) LEAF doesn't need HDD, it's enough to insert small IDE SSD - that is cheaper than HDD and have higher reliability in R/O mode 2) LEAF is easier in maintenance & update/backup 3) LEAF takes much less resources than full-sized distro (for RAM - it takes up to 2-4 times less memory than non-uClibc distro) 4) It's very easy to deploy new LEAF box for replacement old one And there is only short list of advantages. The main disadvantage for me was very rare kernel with ugly support for new hardware - so, when I take new LAN card (i82576) and discover that drivers for 2.4 are quite buggy, I decided to try to migrate on 2.6 kernel, and it was easier that I think; it takes for me approx one week. Yes, somewhere there are dirty places that must be cleaned, and there are some features that I planned to add some later (because main objective for me was only migration to 2.6 kernel) - but now it's alive, and working on some my boxes. Also, my branch have one hack (wrapper for GCC, that calls compiler with '-m32' flag) to grant compilation of all packages under x86_64 host OS.
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