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Hi John, On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 03:29, John Voigt wrote: > > > IMHO getting those extra 32MB (or 128MB for that matter) for your > > > firewall is super cheap, compared to going out and getting a > > > commercial product for $1000+ (which is what you'd have to pay to get > > > the same services and throughput as m0n0wall running on any old PC or > > > a 4801/WRAP board!) And I promise you they won't have a support that > > > is anywhere near that of m0n0walls (like is the case, strangely > > > enough, with most OpenSource vs. commercial products!) > > > > Right there is my feelings on it. If its having problems with running on > > 32MB, big deal. On pricewatch.com this morning 256MB of PC133 is at 38$. > > Your machine take DDR? thats even cheaper. PC2700 256MB, 28$. > > > > It is very reasonable for a software in general to require >64MB of ram in > > this age of cheap RAM. I'm still waiting on a company to really take > > advantage of this and make something the size of a CD-rom drive that can > > hold 12+ 1GB sticks of DDR ram that hooks up to IDE, SCSI, or SATA for use > > as a swap/tmp drive for servers. ;) > > > I'm a little concerned about bloat because my fleet of Soekris boxes with > 32MB soldered on and no way to add more are now becoming obsolete. Can we > reduce the size of the ramdisks or something? I do all my logging to a > remote syslog anyway so /var could get a lot smaller. More top posting to fix... Gggrrrrrrr... Anyway, I can see your point, and think that an easy (for us, not for Manuel) solution would to be to release a net4511-20 image that allows for the CF to be used for swap during firmware updates, or alternatively that shuts down all non-essential services during firmware update, and then reboots and re-runs them all. If you cannot update the current CF devices due to this lack of RAM issue, then this may require a once-off re-imaging of the next image to the CF cards, and distributing these to your remote locations - messy, but achievable. Another option would be to implement this in the standard non-CD-ROM/non-generic-pc images as a default in the new images. -- Regards, Hilton Travis Phone: +61-(0)7-3343-3889 Manager, Quark AudioVisual Phone: +61-(0)419-792-394 Quark Computers http://www.QuarkAV.com/ (Brisbane, Australia) http://www.QuarkAV.net/ Open Source Projects: http://www.ares-desktop.org/ http://www.mamboband.org/ Non Linear Video Editing Solutions & Digital Audio Workstations Network Administration, SmoothWall Firewalls, NOD32 AntiVirus Conference and Seminar AudioVisual Production and Recording War doesn't determine who is right. War determines who is left. |