Tales of a BSD router

[Christos Ricudis]

Hello All!

Tis teleytaies bdomades prospa8w na ftiaksw ena diskless ISDN router. 

Gia diaforous logous, 8elw na xrhsimopoihsw ena full-fledged UNIX systhma anti 
gia kapoio mini-distribution. To systhma 8a kanei netboot apo mia PXE-enabled 
ai8erodiktyokarta, kai 8a kanei NFS mount to sympan apo ena server. 

Mia poy tetoia projects ta kanw synh8ws me linuxakia, apofasisa ayth th fora 
na xrhsimopoihsw BSD. Exei genika kalytero IPSEC integration, to TCP/IP stack 
toy eksakoloy8ei na einai kapws kalytero apo toy Linux, kai apofeygoyn tis 
malakioules toy styl "Shmera ksypnhsame me kayles, as baloume ton emacs ston 
kernel ki ama de mas aresei ton bgazoume sto epomeno patchlevel". 

H prwth moy epilogh htan to FreeBSD, mia kai einai targeted mono gia thn 
platforma sthn opoia douleyw. Egkatastash, patching, merika kernel 
recompilations, kai voila! Ena etoimo PXE-booting FreeBSD systhma to opoio 
arneitai epideiktika na kanei NFS mount to / toy OTAN exw kanei compile ston 
kernel to ISDN support. 

Merika brisidia sth mana toy Jordan Hubbard argotera, apofasizw na 
xrhsimopoihsw to OpenBSD. Fainetai ontws kalytero gia tetoies douleies. Sthn 
poreia fysika anakalyptoume oti o logos poy sto OpenBSD prosexoyn kai 
asxolountai me to security, einai epeidh aploustata den prosexoyn kai den 
asxoloyntai ME APOLYTWS TIPOTE ALLO EKTOS APO TO SECURITY. Kapoios 
paneksypnos typos eixe thn faeinh idea na allaksei ton tropo me ton opoio 
pernaei o 2nd stage boot loader parametrous ston kernoula. H apanthsh toy 
paneksypnoy typoy sto sxolio oti etsi einai apolytws adynaton na fortwseis 
ton kernoula me kati allo ektos apo to standard usr/mdec/boot (poy fysika 
den yposthrizei netbooting), htan "to netbooting einai axrhsto, kane boot 
apo disketa". 

Ayrio, (kai ka8ws perimenw na moy er8ei to ekswdiko gia eksybrish apo ton 
De Raadt), exei seira to NetBSD (to opoio parempiptontws trexei 
kataxaroumeno ayth th stigmh se tria apo ta mhxanhmata moy - ena Sun IPX, 
ena DECStation 5000/150 kai ena VAXStation 3100). Elpizw na mh xreiastei na 
brisw KAI ton Zoula, einai kai ellhnas kai synonomatos kai ntrepomai :> 

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Christos Ricudis

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