[tech] router upgrade?

Mark Tearle mtearle+ucc at tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Mon Jan 17 10:58:17 WST 2000


On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Duncan Sargeant wrote:

> David Manchester wrote on Mon January 17, at 09:35 +0800:
> > Hiya - I've got a Pentium on a VX chipset board that I got for lo-cash.
> > We've spoken of revisiting the router, quite often in the past... 
> > Does someone want to select a good case and PSU, and we'll implant this
> > & swap the guts over next Friday or something?
> 
> While we're at it, does anyone object to switching to the Linux Router
> Project?  Nothing to do with bigotry, its just that the 1G drive would
> be more useful doing something a little more than routing.  I'm sure we
> can beg/borrow/steal a floppy drive from somewhere.
> 
> I think I mentioned somewhere in there that the LRP is a router on a
> floppy disk.
> 
> ,dunc

No, objections as long as the f**king thing routes Appletalk correctly
(like the Linux router did before the it got BSD'd) by the end of it.

Oh, and a friendlier set of firewall rules wouldn't go astray either.

Yours
Mark
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