that is a great project!
m0n0wall is a great firewall but, its much better
if we could add http servers, proxy servers, etc..
to make use of the extra power for FULL pc installation.

looking forward to that:)


On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 15:12:12 -0500, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> might want to check out pfSense (www.pfsense.com).  It's a fork of
> m0n0wall that a friend and I are working on, and it's targetted
> towards full PC's rather than embedded devices like m0n0wall is.
> 
> This project is only like a week old, so it's still a work in
> progress.  But we do have m0n0wall working on FreeBSD 5.3 with
> OpenBSD's pf rather than ipfilter.
> 
> Once we get the base solid, we're going to add a packaging system with
> things like a proxy server and other misc stuff to take advantage the
> currently unused power of the full PC platform.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 03:40:59 +0800, Spam Safe <spamsafe at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > hmm...
> > im just wondering if i could make use of the spare power of my pc..
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 04:18:03 -0500, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Nov 2004 17:00:31 +0800, Spam Safe <spamsafe at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > > > hi,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to install m0n0wall on a fully installed
> > > > freebsd machine?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Short answer - no.
> > >
> > > Long answer, probably.  But, no offense, If you have to ask the
> > > question, the answer is you can't figure it out.  You'd have to patch
> > > your kernel sources, build your kernel with the appropropriate
> > > options, install the appropriate packages, build and patch the stuff
> > > from source that's not stock, change your init to load configuration
> > > from config.xml, and some other fun stuff.
> > >
> > > -Chris
> > >
> >
>