[plug] Basic Linux routers

[Russell J Clarke]

Here are a few thoughts on the diskless router thingy.

Correct me if im wrong,
If you can get the filesystem you can put it + the kernel onto a boot ROM of a network card.
It might work I think ive seen it done before. I think you can even use part of the EPROM in
your motherboard to be used as a mountable device

You could even use a Flash ATA Disk on Chip device - Its basicly a large Eprom 
with a IDE port on the end so you can just slot it into the IDE port of your motherboard. 

take a look at
http://www.acqu.com/usa/ifd-xxx.htm - this version supports a flash disk of 8MB to 1.4 gig flash  drives/ 

It depends on what you term being diskless(no moving parts), hope this has help

cheers
Russ

Russsell Clarke (buddyholy at softhome.net)
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On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 13:14:07 +0800 (WST)
The Thought Assassin <assassin at live.wasp.net.au> wrote:

> On 9 Jul 2001, Aaron W wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Jul 2001 19:50:21 +0800 Jeremy Malcolm <Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > >> Has anyone heard of any diskless routers?
>                              ^^^^^^^^
> > Try Freesco
> > It runs off one floppy disk
> 
> I think you might be missing the point.
> 
> -Greg
> 
> 
>