I have just upgraded my Eigerstien Router to a Dachstein router and my congratulations to Charles for a great product. I got it converted and configured in less than 2 hours. A record for me.
I did however have some minor confusion which might assist other who are also confused. First was that when I looked at the weblet website for the first time it showed me an error on the RAM Disk which I later learned was not actually an error but the fact that I had the CD mounted and it thought that the disk was full. When I unmounted the CD the error went away. Not a problem per say but it caused me a half hour of grief trying to figure out why I had an error. Second on the dachstien-CD-v1.0.2.iso image it indicated from the contents that both the OpenSSH and Koon's older (!!-Depricated-!!) version was on the CD but in reality only the OpenSSH version was on the CD which didn't seem to be a problem at first until I tried to connect via Putty (in windows) which does not support OpenSSH. Please correct me if I am wrong but it wouldn't seem to work for me and on the Putty site they claim they do not support OpenSSH. If someone has another Windows OpenSSH compatible option I would be interested but I really like Putty. I was also concerned about OpenSSH because of a recent CAIC bulletin I received that indicated security problems. Not a problem for me because I only use it no my internal net but could use a look by someone smarter than me to see if this version is affected. Third, In the Dachstein CD Readme.txt file in the section on booting from CD with a Floppy for config files it states : To over-ride the PKGPATH setting from the CD's syslinux.cfg, add the file 'pkgpath.cfg' to your floppy disk. The contents of this file are EXACTLY what you would put after the PKGPATH= line of syslinux.cfg ie: device[:filesystem][,device[:filesystem]] While this was good instructions an exact example would have been helpful I tried a number of combinations until I figured out that this file must only simply contain /dev/cdrom after that it worked fine. A comment about watching the boot up and seeing (nf!) I assume meaning "Not Found" might also be helpful. It would have saved me 15 minutes and 3 reboots trying to get the exact syntax Also an example line for the The contents of the lrpkg.cfg would have been helpful for the same reason. It took me another 2 reboots to figure out the reason the box was not coming up was that I only had etc in the file and I needed something like etc,ramlog,local,modules,dhclient,dhcpd,dnscache,weblet possibly I need more but this seems to work pretty good. I know this seems pretty trivial to you experts but I have only set up three of these routers starting with 2.9.4 then Eigerstein and now Dachstein and I have pretty much left them alone but I constantly forget the commands and syntax. Possibly these files could be put on the CD so that someone might copy them directly to a floppy and they would be up and running in short order. If not at the root maybe in a sample file directly or something. Fourth, while trying to set up SSHD it took me a while to figure out what drive my CDROM was because the line mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/hda /mnt would not work for me (because I also have a hard drive installed) and I tried a few other combinations like /dev/hdb, /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, /dev/hdb1, etc. I did finally get it to work when I used /dev/cdrom. While this might not work for everyone it worked for me and might save someone else quite a bit of grief. Also there was nothing about uncommenting (opening port) ssh from the /etc/inetd.conf file (which I happened to remember from setting this up previously) and the How Do I add SSH to the LEAF boot disk Description: v0.8.0 by Steven Peck on the LEAf site was almost no help for the Dachstien version. Charles, Regarding all this information I would be glad to "mark up" your readme file and forward it back to you to with the changes I have outlined above. It is the least I can do to assist in this project which has been a great benefit to both my learning of routers and networking and better use of my existing cable modem connection. Thanks for all the work that has gone in to this release it was the easiest to configure so far. Just trying to make it better/easier. Ken _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
