[IOML] ping

Dylan Smith dyls at alioth.net
Tue Feb 8 19:38:11 GMT 2005


On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Chris Bryden wrote:

> A quick question for Dylan, I've got an Ultra 5 here that I'm thinking of
> using as my ADSL router. I have a heavily hacked LRP on an intel box at the
> moment, but it's getting a bit tired now (Kernel 2.2!) . I was just
> wondering if you rolled you own software or used one of the router oriented
> distros that are about, and if so which one...?

A vanilla install of OpenBSD/sparc64 plus the Alcatel SpeedTouch ADSL
userland drivers.

A sparc64 Linux distro should work just fine for this too. I just have a
marked preference for OpenBSD's 'pf' over iptables.



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