Hey mark!

Jul 26 19:12 05, mark lewis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ml> if i'm reading rightly, the above is a side-thread about ttylinux, 
 ml> right?

Right.

 ml> multiple network cards with individually assignable IPs (internal and 
 ml> at least one external for a dsl or cable modem) as well as the 
 ml> ability to use a modem for dialup as the main or backup connection 
 ml> method...

I can't speak about the modem (ppp) but I have three network interfaces on
the firewall box, one connected to a cable modem (dhcpcd), the other to a
wireless router, and the third a normal wired connection except no router
(straight network connection between two boxes).  At the moment I am
playing around with Slackware on there but plan to reinstall ttylinux on a
64M ide flash disk to run the show but need to customize a few things first
(add vsftpd, xinetd and a few other needed toys).  iptables comes 'boxed'
with ttylinux so what you require should be highly doable if nothing else
is required.

 ml> something that is HD based that is secured from HD writes without 
 ml> some kind of "special" method of saving config changes...

That could be done from a booted ramdisk with writes happening to a mounted
HD or a networked drive(s).  Now that you bring it up rsync will be also
added to my ttylinux flash disk.  :-)

ttylinux can also be installed on a HD if desired.

 ml> i'd possibly be interested in something CD bootable but machines 
 ml> older than PII capability usually don't have bootable CD 
 ml> capabilities... i've definitely not found any 486's that do ;)

I have one, a 486-33 with usb too!!!  I don't have a CD-ROM on there but it
can boot one if there was one.  It has a 32-bit pci controller so all sorts
of thing that aren't normally possible on 486's is doable on that one. 
Shhhhhhh ... it thinks it's a Cray.  Silly little box.  :-)

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