Tom Izard wrote:

>Hello Group,
> 
>I have m0nowall running on a 4511 in ad-hoc mode as a wireless bridge
>between 
>Two LANs.  Everything seems to be working fine …
> 
>But, it takes too long to boot up!  I have a spec that requires me to be
>
>operational in 20 seconds, not the 60 I use now.  Can anyone point me in
>
>the direction of any work that has been done to speed up the m0n0wall
>boot time?   (Soekris reports they will be coming up with a BIOS that
>allows
>the memory test to be skipped, but that only knocks off about 8
>seconds.)
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Tom
> 
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> 
>Thomas Izard
>Senior Software Engineer
> 
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>
Your spec is way unrealistic.  Even an expensive Cisco router doesn't 
boot in 20 seconds.  Anyway, up your hardware to a fast hard drive, in a 
fast computer and you might reach your 20 second spec.  No way a Soekris 
is going to boot that quickly.  Flash cards are much slower than hard 
drives, that's one major reason for slower boot time.