Am 12. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte George Toft so:
> I'm looking to create a NMP (No Moving Parts) firewall based on LEAF.
> To accomplish this, I need something to replace the floppy drive, or an
> alternate boot device. This something needs to be mountable/unmountable
> like a floppy.
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
As Bryce and Chris suggested you can go with a USB device. I think booting
from USB is still a hard to find feature, though.
There are IDE->CF adapters out there. A couple of links were posted on the
list sometime in the last year.
You'd have to make a mechanism to 'eject' the card, but that should work
fine if you can run from RAM and unmount the device.
There might also be a way to physically remove the 'write' pin.
If you have a SCSI->CF ( hallo Alan :) you might be able to physically make
the device read-only.
You could add a second CF card that is writable for logs.
I'm certain you thought of network booting, but it doesn't work for what yo=
u
want. Might work for the rest of us, though :).
Hmmm, LTSP firewall farm... ;-)
Hmmm, using a 200MHz processor as an LTSP server and have it be useful :).
ciao,
der.hans
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