[PLUG] Floppy Firewall

Carla Schroder pluglist at bratgrrl.com
Fri Jul 19 10:21:35 UTC 2002


On Friday 19 July 2002 04:56 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all.  My Linux router died, so I need to build another.  I'm
> interested in using a 486 I have handy.  What's a good floppy firewall
> distro? My requirements are:
>
> -I'm on cable, DHCP.
> -I would like to run DHCP as a server for my home network
> -I have to use a Winblowz machine to actually write the firewall floppy.
>
> I tried floppyfw, But it would not boot on my 486.  Came up with
> "Loading intrd.gz...  Boot failed: please change disks and press a key
> to continue".  I tried a standard boot disk on this 486, and it worked
> fine.
>
> Help would be appreciated...
>
> Richard
>
>
>

FreeSCO is the easiest to set up & use, it's perfect for a home network.

<blatant plug> See 
http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article/0,,12083_1107911,00.html
http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article/0,,12083_1141271,00.html
for a step-by-step howto.
</blatant plug>

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