If I was going to go this route, I would test it with a floppy, then make a bootable CDROM with the floppy image. Boot faster, and should hold up better.
Of course, I am someone who went from using his Linux box as the firewall device to a Linksys router, because something always came up when I decided to upgrade the OS on my Linux box, and one time I was down for 4 days before I resolved the software/hardware issues. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Costomiris Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 6:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RH as router, not recommended?? On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:26:46PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: : If you need to fit it on one floppy disk like LRP, then LRP is better : for obvious reasons. Other than that I can't think of any other : reasons it would be better. Of course, having less installed, means : less to configure, and less to worry about. Maybe some benefit there. : Performance is not a factor. If anything a full blown distro would : have more networking tools. Repeat after me gang... :-) "I will not trust a vital piece of network infrastructure to a floppy disk." -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
