[nycbug-talk] soho router options (soekris?)

[G. Rosamond]

On Jan 20, 2005, at 10:54 AM, Brad Schonhorst wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 12:04 PM, G. Rosamond wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> Sure.  But the point of NYC*BUG, to me at least, should be to pool 
>>>> some of our skills and resources so we can do things like run a 
>>>> Soekris box without having to start from square one.
>>>>
>>>> sysadmins<->devs
>>>> newusers<->old hacks
>>>>
>>>> The idea would be to make it easier for those who *do* want to run 
>>>> Soekris as a firewall at home without too much effort.
>>>>
>>>> I'd envision this:
>>>>
>>>> You download and copy to your CF card.
>>>>
>>>> Plug it in.
>>>>
>>>> Use it.
>>>
>>> Shall we rock this?
>>>
>>
>> I would love to, and have the basic setup ready, including pfstat, 
>> etc., but really don't have the time.
>>
>> volunteers?
>>
>> I know a number of nycbug people, like Kurt M., Okan D., Pete W., 
>> etc., have had some Soekris fun.  I'm sure they have some input into 
>> the matter, if not volunteering.
>>
>> G
>>
>
> First off, I think this is a great idea and would love to help test or 
> whatever I can do.  My question is how would this be different from:
>
> flashdist
> http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/soekris/

I think it would be more fully config'd version, with full pf rules, 
with an accompanying network device listing, ie, ips<-> devices listed 
to match included PF rules.


>
> opensoekris
> http://opensoekris.sourceforge.net/
>
> CompactBSD
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/compactbsd
>
>
> Also, has anyone used nsh?
> http://www.nmedia.net/~chris/nsh/
>

Doesn't work on OBSD 3.6 AFAIK.  Emailed that to Chris Capuccio a while 
back.

But ..  . uh .  . . . who wants a Cisco IOS interface on a BSD box 
anyway?

g