Brett,

I agree that it would be very nice to have the config on some other media
than floppy. I'm not sure if mono will detect usb devices, but I suppose
since it currently mounts the floppy and looks for the config.xml file in
the /config directory that it may as well just try to mount whatever it
finds and which ever device it hit's first just pull the config from it.

I'm rambling...

-Tom

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Hello all,

After my old laptop firewall blew a gasket (literally- after 6 years, the
capacitors in the motherboard let the magic smoke out), I had to drag out
the linksys router (ugh) to get back up, and I've been hunting for
alternatives.

After a half hour or so googling, I found some mentions of installing
m0n0wall on a USB key, but no details on how to do so.  I think that may be
moot as I doubt the bios on the new host system will boot off USB, but it's
something I might still like to hear about.

   The next best thing is a CDROM boot with configuration data on a USB
flash key.  They're cheap (especially when you don't care too much about
size; even 1MB would be enough), practically available at the corner
drugstore, and secure- many have write-lock switches.  They're also
reliable, unlike floppies and floppy drives.  No CF adapter needed- for the
host or wherever you do your configuration.  Heck, I don't even have a
floppy drive in most of my systems! :-)

However, I found nothing about support for this after checking release
notes, documentation, and a list archive/FAQ search.  I did find mentions of
saving configuration data in the install guide, but they indicate
configuration saving is something the user has little control
over- it just 'happens', you have no way to tell it -where- to save the
data.

So am I being silly, in that it 'just works' if m0n0wall sees a USB mass
storage device with a FAT partition?  Special tricks needed?  Not supported?
(if so, I smell feature request ;-)  Another nice alternative would be
remote config retrieval so you could burn a CD with enough of a config (say,
the inside interface config) to get up and download the configuration file
from another host.  I may want to change my port forwards a lot, but I
haven't changed my router's internal IP in half a decade :-)

Thanks!
Brett

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