[NCLUG] tulip.o - LRP, Coyote Linux and other such things

[Daniel Herrington]

Yeah, I run coyote linux as a firewall/router.  It works great.  I'm
running it on a cheap 486 with only a floppy drive and two 10BaseT
cards.  The nice thing about it is that, not only does it protect your
linux/win98/whatever computers on the local side, but there's also no
hard drive to be hacked into, and you can set the read/write tab on
the floppy disk to read-only.  So a hacker can't really mess things up
on the permanent storage.  The worst that could happen is that you
might need to reboot, in order to reload the floppy image (I've never
had to do that, though).  I haven't had any problems with it, and it
runs fast on my 486 (there's no monitor or keyboard either).  And you
can't telnet to it.  Only ssh is allowed, and only from an internal
machine.  Pretty cool for a 1.44MB OS, huh...

Regards,
   Daniel

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=> Replying to Richard Smerker's message, "[NCLUG] tulip.o - LRP, Coyote Linux and other such things" (Oct 23):
 > Well as some of you know, I have been trying to get an
 > old Compaq XL5100 up and running with Redhat to
 > try and get a router/play box running.  At the installfest
 > yesterday, I learned a lot - Thanks again to everyone 
 > who lended a hand (And a special thanks to all those
 > who walked by with a double take "Is that EISA?!?!?!")
 > 
 > At any rate, I finally got the system up and running late
 > last night, and with Matt's suggestion I grabbed the new
 > tulip drivers - And what do ya know - It works!  I now
 > have a box which sees the built in card (pcnet32) and
 > a Linksys Network Everywhere NC100 (tulip).  Its
 > router time!
 > 
 > And as an FYI - I tried using Coyote Linux from
 > www.coyotelinux.com, and it works very well.  With a
 > simple shell script and about 10 questions, it builds an
 > LRP like boot floppy for you and you can have a router 
 > up in minutes.  However, it does not yet have the newest
 > tulip drivers - so no luck for me, but it is pretty slick.
 > 
 > Rich Smerker
 > 
 > 
 > 
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