Morning all,
I think some of you missed my point. I am not really interested in
using freesco, more to the point:
1. It was interesting to see someone trying to make a go of selling
computers with a floppy based firewall.
2. Since they claim it runs in 6 MB, I would be interested in seeing how
they have the web-based setup routine work in the limited space.
3. I wonder if the web based setup would be something that could be
adapted to LRP without alot of overhead (mainly space requirements).
I am glad to see some have used it before. My question to you all is,
what is the setup routine like? Was it comprehensive? Was it web-based
or text-based? I have only tried Oxygen's setup a couple of times, and
it is effective, but unless you know the layout of the system and where
you should edit for your situation, it can be a little difficult to
configure. Now, in all honesty, I have not RTFM's, I have "perused"
them and thought I could figure it out as I went. I was only half
effective in that approach.
The weird thought I had was what if, like in Oxygen, you had a basic
boot disk, then you loaded whatever data disk you wanted, followed only
on the initial boot, a setup diskette. The setup diskette would do the
grunt work of setting up the basic system (web-based with brief
explanations on the various screens of what needed to go where). Then
you could use the package system to setup the individual packages as
needed.
I hope all that made some sense, and more importantly, I hope I have my
facts straight on Oxygen since I have only used it twice like I said.
It took me about a week the first time I tried LRP to figure out that
when I rebooted, the settings weren't being saved (ramdisk...D'OH!). If
I am wrong, or misguided, I apologize and would appreciate being pointed
in the right direction.
Thanks,
Tony
P.S. The DNS scans have faded out for the most part, but it seems to be
tied to that damn X-10 advertisement. Whenever I have one pop up, I get
scanned. I can go for a week or two, nothing, then boom, scan-o-rama.
I implemented the filter pointing to an external file with the IP's
listed and that has taken care of it.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of kp vander
> kleut
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 06:38
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: David Zilm
> Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
>
>
> Hi,
>
> last I checked (some months ago) Freesco did only Modem
> (PPP)lines, no dsl
> or cable or ethernet, running on a 2.0.36 kernel. their
> webconfig is a nice
> setup though slightly confusing at times. Didn't try to find out more
> because I prefer 2.2.* kernels and use a cable modem. if you
> decide to try
> and adept some of it for LRP I would be intrested of course
> (as would others
> I presume).
> I read through their site quickly and found a newer release
> than the one I
> saw some time back, they apperently support eth-eth and cable
> nowadays,
> maybe I'll take another shot at it. I couldn't find a kernel
> version in
> their docs quickly, don't now whether they use ipchains or
> tables. (They do
> have a nice setup manual)
> Good luck
> Greetings Peter vanderkleut
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Zilm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 10:42 AM
> Subject: [Leaf-user] Now here's an interesting auction
>
>
> >
> > > Message: 1
> > > From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 11:08:31 -0400
> > > Subject: [Leaf-user] OT: Now here's an interesting auction
> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > First, Hi to all the recently displaced (?) LRP list
> members, glad to
> > > join you over here. Second, sorry about the off topic
> post, but have a
> > > look at this enterprising lad:
> > >
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1245384063
> > >
> > > Has anyone tried this freesco yet? I am not interested
> in using it, but
> > > I am interested in the web config they tout. That would
> be interesting
> > > considering they say it runs in as little as 6 MB.
> > >
> > > Later
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
> >
> > Yes. It works, but in my experience 8MB would be the limit
> these days.
> You
> > cant load any additional monitoring functions in 12MB, so
> 6MB is just a
> bit
> > wishful thinking.
> >
> > 32MB SDRAM should permit some utilities (like top,
> accounting etc) to also
> > run.
> >
> > Like LRP, the P133 is an overkill for the job (gee's a 486DX66 would
> > suffice for DSL)
> >
> > It does write some stuff to floppy/hdd though (config based stuff)
> > automatically
> >
> > A unique way to sell a PC I suppose.
> > --
> > -----
> >
> > Dave
> > Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
> >
> > mailto: dzilm@!melbpc.org.au-without-the-!
> >
> >
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