On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:27:00PM -0400, Lewis G Rosenthal wrote:
> The real value would be not in a little box, but something like
> NoCatSplash, where a workstation functions as an AP and/or broadband router.
This is the sort of thing I was thinking of - a sort of router/gateway
acting as a superserver to an internal network with a real IP address on
one side and an internal IP address on the other. Using an internal IP
network you wouldn't need a firewall and NAT on every machine, all clients
would access the Internet via a proxy or socks server on the gateway
machine which could also act as an imap mail server.
--
John
> True, Mark, the embedded systems are fairly slim compared to 'doze, but by
> the time you get a working IP stack on it, you're already at several MB.
> You'd then need some way to configure it (telnet or...yikes!...browser). I
> think the Linux builds are tighter than this by 50-60% (best guess). I
> agree that it might be fun for the excersize, but... :-)
>
> BTW, glad you made it home safe & sound. Thanks for a really great eent
> this year.
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> ...... Original Message .......
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 19:35:54 -0400 madodel@ptdprolog.net wrote:
> >In <5760-SnapperMsg4EDDFFFDBDA4801D@68.246.129.162>, on 10/26/04 at 06:27
> >PM,
> > Lewis G Rosenthal <lgrosenthal@2rosenthals.com> said:
> >
> >>You'd need to squeeze the OS/2 install down quite a bit. From where I
> >>sit, that's the biggest problem, John. Check out the size of one of the
> >>embedded Linux distros...
> >
> >>I know that OS/2 has been used in embedded apps before, but I doubt that
> >>the installs have been that small.
> >
> >I thought the embedded ones just use the bare basic. No PMSHELL, no WPS,
> >no MMOS2, no support apps and utilities, just the kernel and loader,
> >command processor, file system, minimal required drivers and a TCP/IP
> >stack. I would think that would be pretty small compared to windoze if
> >you could even do it with windoze, but I have no idea what a stripped down
> >Linux is like. Its my understanding that many if not most of the routers
> >out there already use a stripped down Linux, so I'm not sure what would be
> >the point of trying this with OS/2 other then to show it can be done.
> >
> >Mark
> >
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