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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : Dale Long <dalel@loftuscomp.com.au>
  Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:24:23 +1030

Re: "Host based" routers and BGP

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:26:32PM +1030, Dale Long wrote:

 > Have a look at Freesco and the Linux Router Project. A miniman Debian
 > install might be suitable too. The floppy only solutions are good in that
 > they can run from a write-protected floppy in RAM, which could be
 > considered a slight bonus for security purposes.
 > There is a FreeBSD based equivelent project, but I forget the name.
 
None of that represents a viably serious solution for what the original
poster was after.  He said he wanted a border router for multiple upstreams;
This strongly suggests BGP peering, and no router which fits on a floppy
will have anywhere near the kind of software you need to do that.

You probably also wouldn't want to have it on write-protected media
anyway;   One of the more annoying things about BGP configurations 
is that, despite everyone's best intentions, they're very much subject
to change.

Compact Flash perhaps, but not a floppy-based router project.

   - mark

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