Re: [Soekris] pfSense on 4801

2009-03-29 Thread RB
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 16:39, Andy Michaels wrote: >> I don't want to hijack the thread, but I've precisely a few questions >> regarding pfSense on Soekris boards. >> >> Have you an experience with it on the net4801 ? > > I've had great success with pfSense on 4801. easy install and > maintenance

Re: [Soekris] pfSense on 4801

2009-03-29 Thread Andy Michaels
> I don't want to hijack the thread, but I've precisely a few questions > regarding pfSense on Soekris boards. > > Have you an experience with it on the net4801 ? I've had great success with pfSense on 4801. easy install and maintenance. It's as easy as copying an image to a CF disk and booting i

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread JFS
Hello RB, On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:58:17PM -0600, RB wrote: > In that case, I highly recommend checking out pfSense, m0n0wall, or > openwall [...] I [...] have pretty much standardized on pfSense, > simply because they do the job well and quickly. I don't want to hijack the thread, but I've pr

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread RB
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 13:13, Mohammed Sherif wrote: > I have been going thru the features of pfSense. It says that filtering on > Openvpn traffic is not possible yet, which is one of my main requirement.. More to correct the record than to press you, according to the pfSense devs 1.2.3 is capab

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Mohammed Sherif
I have been going thru the features of pfSense. It says that filtering on Openvpn traffic is not possible yet, which is one of my main requirement.. On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:58 PM, RB wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:38, Mohammed Sherif wrote: > > First of all, thank you very much everyone

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread RB
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:38, Mohammed Sherif wrote: > First of all, thank you very much everyone for your valuable inputs. > I know it is not the right distribution to be used in this scenario, but I > have an urgent requirement for this device to be up and running with Openvpn > / Iptables on i

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Mohammed Sherif
First of all, thank you very much everyone for your valuable inputs. I know it is not the right distribution to be used in this scenario, but I have an urgent requirement for this device to be up and running with Openvpn / Iptables on it. Though I'm not a newbie in Linux, I'm relatively new in the

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread RB
2009/3/29 Mohammed Sherif : > I tried even with RHEL 4.0, but still no joy. Downloading RHEL 3.0... As was noted earlier, RHEL and related distributions aren't entirely appropriate for the embedded space in their vanilla configurations. I've seen embedded builds based on them, but they require a g

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Mohammed Sherif
I tried even with RHEL 4.0, but still no joy. Downloading RHEL 3.0... On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 9:34 PM, Karel van Houten wrote: > > Matthew Kaufman wrote: > >> ... >>> >>> >> Specifically, CentOS is highly related to RHEL. CentOS 5.x won't install >> because it is 686-only. CentOS 4.7 won't ins

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread joel jaeggli
It's likely that the installer for update 9 no longer has support for pentium/586 installations. You may find that an earlier version of rhel 3 still does and that once installed it should work that said. Rhel3 is rather old, it wouldn't for example be my first choice... There are instructions

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Matthew Kaufman wrote: > Mohammed Sherif wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install RHEL 3 Update 9 x86 on a net5501-60 and it fails >> with "you are trying to install on a machine which is nt supported by >> this release of redhat enterprise Linux." this happens while it is >> fetching pack

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Iustin Pop
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:07:01PM +0400, Mohammed Sherif wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install RHEL 3 Update 9 x86 on a net5501-60 and it fails with > "you are trying to install on a machine which is nt supported by this > release of redhat enterprise Linux." this happens while it is fetching > pac

Re: [Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Mohammed Sherif wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install RHEL 3 Update 9 x86 on a net5501-60 and it fails > with "you are trying to install on a machine which is nt supported by > this release of redhat enterprise Linux." this happens while it is > fetching package details from the NFS server. Any

[Soekris] RHEL 3 / 4 on net5501

2009-03-29 Thread Mohammed Sherif
Hi, I'm trying to install RHEL 3 Update 9 x86 on a net5501-60 and it fails with "you are trying to install on a machine which is nt supported by this release of redhat enterprise Linux." this happens while it is fetching package details from the NFS server. Any clues ? Thanks -Sherif ___