DragonFly users List (threaded) for 2007-12
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Re: DragonFly vs Linksys as firewall and Gateway
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes:
> When using a free OS as a router or firewall the main issue tends not
> to be the OS itself but the box you are running it on. To really be
> useful as a black box router it needs to be a small, fanless PC,
> preferably booted off a flash drive instead of a hard drive.
Running dragonfly off of a CDROM drive like I do tends to be a decent,
though not absolutely perfect, substitute for this. While I can't speak
for the form factor, it has better properties than the flash
drive...i.e. even if someone does hack into it, you just reboot and
there's no way that I know of to alter a CD-R image after it's been
burned.
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Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org
>>> The opinions expressed above are entirely my own <<<
None should say "I can trust" or "I cannot trust" until they
are the master of the option of trusting or not trusting.
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