>I had a thought. Has anyone looked into using LTSP to serve as a >firewall appliance. The ipchains/firewall software could be run locally >while everything could be configured from the server.
I would not trust a firewall that got its rules from a NFS mounted partition. And you would still have to poke the firewall to refresh the rules. However it's eminently feasible to boot a firewall from an image that contains the initrd needed to run everything. I can edit the rules on the server, run a Makefile command to build a new image and hit the reset button on the firewall (I have used 386s and 486s) to reload the kernel. Have a look at www.zelow.no/floppyfw for an example. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
