Re: Open Source router project

From: Joshua Kugler <jk@as.uaf.edu>
Date: Mon May 03 2004 - 14:08:38 AKDT

I actually remember those. Been a long time since those came out. A quick
look on eBay turned up nothing. Know anyone who is selling one or more?

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On Monday 03 May 2004 12:56 pm, Matthew Schumacher wrote:
> I have been using old Interjets for routers for some time now and they
> work great. I get a 16MB compact flash card and boot from it so that
> there is nothing mounted rw and there is no moving parts in the unit. I
> can turn it off and on whenever and it doesn't hurt it. Updating is
> similar to a cisco, you create a new boot image (initrd filesystem that
> runs from memory) and copy it to the bootable flash card.
>
> The result is a perfectly silent linux based router/firewall that is
> able to do 3DES IPSEC, iptables, NAT, etc. I didn't think the little
> 486 was up to 3DES with VOIP going though it, but it actually does just
> fine.
>
> Even comes with a built in battery backup and LCD display. Here is a
> (old) picture:
>
> http://schu.net/gallery/albums/album76/PICT0015.jpg

-- 
Joshua Kugler
Assistant Systems Administrator
UAF Department of Mathematical Sciences
UAF LUG President
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