[Sussex] Linux Firewall on a 50mg CD

Steve Dobson SDobson at manh.com
Tue Oct 8 16:05:01 UTC 2002


Mark

On 08 October at 2002 09:49 Geoff Teale said:
> > I looked yesturday at many small distro's however, their 
> > seams to be one 
> > common theme among them. They all use the 2.2.x kernel. I am 
> > looking at 
> > using the 2.4 kernel so that we can make use of the power of  
> > iptables. 
> > I am going to have a look at how easy it is to swop the 
> > kernel in ipcop 
> > and see if this works or not. If not i need to some how build 
> > a mini 2.4 
> > distro.
> 
> You might want to look at some of the non-install/CD boot 
> disk distros -
> they are pretty easy to customise.  
<snip>

Or you could look at a distro that can be scaled down: Debian
springs to mind.  - Couldn't resit the plug.

Steve




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