I'm setting up a gateway/firewall at home. This machine will serve mainly as a node through which I can do remote-wake-ups of my home workstation. (To build remote-wake-up packets you need root access, which may not always be available when I'm away from home.) The firewalling stuff, if any, will be a bonus feature.
For this to make sense, the gateway machine has to be quiet (a noisy gateway would defeat the purpose of having APM enabled on my workstation). I plan to use for this a fanless, diskless 486DX4/100 with 8M RAM. The idea being that I can load Debian from floppy (a la "rescue disk"), set up networking/firewalling, and install (in RAM) a setuid-root remote-wake-up binary. Then if I want to access my home workstation remotely, I login to the gateway and run the remote-wake-up binary. Anyone have experience with diskless installations? Any suggestions/hints? cheers, chris
