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Hi Barry, On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:56, Barry Murphy wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: Hilton Travis [mailto:Hilton at QuarkAV dot com] > Sent: Sunday, 2 May 2004 9:09 a.m. > To: m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] cf-image > > > Hi Fisch, > > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 23:14, fisch wrote: > > > hi, > > > i have some understanding problems, I have a 128MB CF-Card and wrote > > > the 5MB net45xx-image on it (using dd). Now I have a 5MB partition > > > (hde4) on the CF-Card. What is with the 123MB left? How can I use > > > this? Is it possible to mount the partition on a linux system? What > > > filesystem is on it? > > > As the net45xx that you have is going to be used for a dedicated > > firewall, and as that dedicated firewall only uses the CF to load the > > image into RAM and then effectively unmounts the CF so that it is not > > used except for saving changes to configuration information, there is no > > need to use the remaining 128MB of this Flash card for anything at all. > > Not only is there no need, there is also little practical, > > security-conscious reason that you would even want to use this 123MB > > for anything. > And for those of us that would like to use it to store a 5mb file for > download testing when at a clients premesis, or to test speed across a > daisy chain of m0n0wall hostap's? If you need a fileserver, use a fileserver. If you need a firewall, use a firewall. They are different beasts. As for using the CF to store logs, it is going to kill your CF faster than you'd like to think. I *would* like to have a user configurable log size for those of us who use exhorbitant amounts of RAM - greater than 64MB, that is. :) -- 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. |