Thanks allot for getting back so quickly. I certainly hope you stick it out with us.
Your insight was appreciated,' Eric -----Original Message----- From: Matt Stockdale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 10:35 AM To: Eric B Kiser Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] LEAF Newbie - Questions reguarding 4501 Bering install I had to move away from emBSD because it has bugs when interacting w/ either the 4501 or the natsemi ethernet onboard specifically. When I had a lot of open connections through NAT (edonkey2000, winmx, etc), the ethernet would just stop responding, and the box would eventually lock up. You could bring it back by running a tcpdump on the interface (?!?!?! you could even tell it to just capture a single packet. I don't know if it was flushing buffers or something, but it did the trick). For the unit to be usable as a firewall, I had to run tcpdumps once a minute, across all the interfaces, which impacted performance pretty severly. Also, I work for an ISP, and we've been forced to move all of our firewalls to linux because OpenBSD fails so miserably under any sort of real load in every version 3.0 release. (and older versions 2.7, 2.8, etc. The only version we've found to be stable is 2.9-CURRENT) As far as LEAF goes, It's a little early for me to have much of an opinion, but I have to say, except for the bugs, working w/ emBSD was so much better. No mucking about w/ packages, it just ran w/ ufs right on the CF. SSH and SCP by default. It's not an entirely fair comparison, of course, because LEAF needs to be able to have basic functionality on just a single floppy. I mainly chose leaf because none of the other mini-linux distros that I could fit on a 32mb CF card seemed very polished. I'm going to continue to play w/ bering, I'm also toying w/ the idea of getting a larger flash card (128,192, or 256Mb perhaps) and just doing a normal redhat (or more likely debian, which has a far smaller minimum footprint, although I never really liked it) and install to the CF, or, just getting a Mini-ITX case and Mobo and using a regular hard drive. Matt On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 09:27:52AM -0400, Eric B Kiser wrote: > Hi Matt, > > You mentioned that you had emBSD running on the 4501 previously. I have a > few questions for you. > > What is your opinion of emBSD? > > What made you decide to try out LEAF? > > Do you have a comparative opinion? If so, what do you think? > > Thanks, > Eric > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt > Stockdale > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 6:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [leaf-user] LEAF Newbie - Questions reguarding 4501 Bering > install > > > As is usual, I got it working all of 15 seconds after I sent this out. Turns > out I shouldn't have fdisked it, just used "mkdosfs /dev/hde" > > Matt > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 06:09:36PM -0400, Matt Stockdale wrote: > > I've searched the archives to some extent, but I couldn't find anything > relevant.. If however, I missed something, please point me in the right > direction.. > > > > I'm attempting to install Bering rc3 onto a CF card, which will go into my > soekris 4501. I'm using RedHat 7.2 running on my IBM thinkpad (which has a > CF adapter built into it) to place the files on the CF. However, the 4501 > just refuses to boot it. > > > > I've followed the instructions at > http://www.franzdoodle.com/bering/net4501_cf.txt, and also the very similar > set at > http://www.mail-archive.com/leaf-cvs-commits@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00074. > html. > > > > I wasn't sure how the CF was supposed to be made bootable as listed in the > franzdoodle docs, there was no mention of running syslinux on the CF (which > I did anyways), and I even tried adding "serial 0 19200" to the top of > syslinux.cfg, to see if it was even booting syslinux, which is doesn't > appear to be. > > > > the CF I'm using is a Transcend 32mb that worked fine w/ emBSD. > > > > I used linux fdisk to partition it w/ 1 partition, spanning the whole CF, > of type "FAT16" (hde1), and made the partition bootable. I copied all the > files over from the floppy image, replaced the kernel w/ one I compiled > (2.4.19) w/ serial support and serial console support built in, copied over > the ide and natsemi modules, and edited added the ttyS0 getty to inittab and > securetty.. > > > > Any idea where I can start troubleshooting? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Matt Stockdale Sr. Network Engineer - logicworks.net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dura lex, sed lex" > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Matt Stockdale Sr. Network Engineer - logicworks.net > [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Dura lex, sed lex" > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old > cell phone? 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