Am 14:48 2003-05-23 +0200 hat debian-isp geschrieben: > >Hi ! >We are just considering if we should try to set up our firewall on a Rackmountsystem with only >Compac flash card and onboard cpu. Which would reduce a least the possibility of a harddisk crash, and would provide an easy possiblity to swap cards when there is a problem. >The compac flash card (available also with 512MB is acting like a harddisk... >Any experience with that kind of hardware ?
Hello, 512 MByte ??? Why not using 1 Gbyte ;-)) I am running a Router/Firewall with a 16 MByte CF. Using a modified LRP <http://www.linuxrouter.org/> or better the leaf project. The Kernel and the Compressed Filesystem is on the CF-Card and will decompressed in a 10 MByte Ramdisk... I am using 32 MByte of Memory... If you like to hotswap th CF-Card you need the pcmcia-cs and a bigger Ramdisk, but I think, 16 MByte will enough. Achja, the life of CF-Card is very short (it depends on the WRITES not reads), so A Ramdisk is your soulution. And If you like to save your Logs, Modify your Logcycle-script which move the compressed Logs to the CF-Card. Schoene Gruesse aus Strasbourg Michelle
