[KLUG Members] no route to local network?

[Mike Williams]

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> Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
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>>>> > I might just start over and build this thing around SuSE 9.3, since I 
>>>> > just got a copy of that.
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>>> 9.3 would be good if you want to build one but if you just want to get it done I'd check out Devil Linux (http://www.devil-linux.org). I've heard a rumor that one of the developers hangs out on this list.  ;-) 
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>Or floppyfw, several users hang out here too!  :) 
>http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/  My Packard Smell (hey, I got it for free)
>has been running floppyfw with all the power to the fans cut-off, for
>years and years.
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>And there is always http://www.freesco.org/ which has been presented at
>KLUG (but I've never had the time to try out).  Very I-am-a-router
>focused.
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Or IPCop, or Smoothwall, or Gibraltar, or Astaro, or any number of other 
things.  I don't want a firewall-only distro in this case because I'd 
like it to do a little bit of samba file sharing too.  It's likely to be 
much easier to properly lock down a SuSE box than to unlock a 
firewall-only distro and get samba installed on it.

>Or there is the radical option of buying a Cisco router on e-bay and
>using your computer as a computer!  :)   The advantage of that is that the
>bloody things NEVER die, malfunction, hiccup, or burp.  And you get some
>experience working with the worlds most pervasive router platform.
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I tried buying a Cisco on ebay once.  I eventually got what I wanted, 
but it took about 4 attempts.  Most of what was being sold at a 
reasonable price was stuff so old and strange Cisco doesn't even admit 
it's existence:  804 IDSL (not ISDN), 760something.  All Cisco gear is 
not created equally, I'm afraid.  For a solid state device, I'd get 
something from the Cisco / Linksys WRT54G family, as it is 
run-from-memory Linux under the hood.  Particularly tempting since I saw 
them at Best Buy for $40 after rebate.

>I'd avoid anything that involves a hard drive.
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Again, thinking to run Samba on it, which makes a hard drive kinda 
necessary.