Jacques Nilo wrote:

>Following my previous post on how to get rid of LRP kernel patches I
>have created a 2.4.14 base LEAF version with SHOREWALL as default
>firewall.
>Please consider this work as preliminary.
>
>All the stuff is here:
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/kernel-2.4.14/
>
>The diskimage is:
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/kernel-2.4.14/leaf-2.4.14-1680.b
>in
>use the command:
>  dd if=leaf-2.4.14-1680.bin of=/dev/fd0u1680
>to move it over to a floppy
>
>If you need extra kernel modules there are in:
>http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/kernel-2.4.14/modules/
>
>1/ Kernel
>It's plain vanilla 2.4.14. They are 3 config files and 3 corresponding
>UPX compressed kernel in the directory. Small & Normal correspond to
>Charle's Dachstein. Mini does not have any IDE/PCMCIA support.
>
>2/ Distro
>This 2.4.14 version is basically derived from the new dachstein-rc2
>distro. Ipchains and related stuff has been removed and replaced by
>iptables 1.2.4.
>See: http://netfilter.samba.org/
>
>Firewall is the nice tool designed by Tom Eastep, Shorewall in it's
>latest 1.1.18 version
>See: http://www.shorewall.net/
>
This is more or less the setup I'd like to have.

>
>
>3/ TO-DO's (among other things)
>1/ clean-up /etc/init.d/network, /etc/network.conf  and
>/etc/ipfilter.conf to get rid of all
>the unecessary stuff.
>2/ In the above mentioned files check the QoS and bridge stuff
>3/ modify /linuxrc to copy the initial initrd.gz to tmpfs and then
>pivot_root from  there. Will allow to adjust the size of the filesystem
>dynamically. Pivot_root is provided in the busybox library.
>
As I wrote in another post I will see If I can put together a minimalist 
initrd.gz this weekend.

>
>4/ allow backup of initrd.gz ??? (not really useful, to my opinion)
>
I disagree. See the "How to get rid of LEAF kernel patches" thread..

>Adjust weblet script to take care of firewall messages
>
>Any feedback/ideas/help on the 5 points mentionned and any other would
>be welcomed!
>
>Cheers
>
>Jacques
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