Now that all my traffic to and from the internet is running happily through my Alix box (and it had no trouble with a few hours of sustained maxing-out of my 6Mbps down/768kbps up DSL line in both directions), and since my first test unslung-NSLU2 “slug” seems to be stably doing its job as a [...]
My biggest problem with flashdist is just how little is included. This is, of course, necessary for the primary goal of flashdist (working on really constrained machines) and since its goals generally align with my goals in using flashdist and since flashdist has those nice, simple, pre-built images, the fact that very little is included [...]
Today, not only did the NSLU2 that I bought on eBay arrive, but the red anodized aluminum case for my Alix arrived, too. Getting the NSLU2 to run “unslung” from a 1GB flash drive was a royal pain. If I do a second one, I’ll have to verify my technique, but it seems that the [...]
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Posted 22 May 2008
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I subscribe to a few security-alert email lists, most of which I skim and delete (since I already know that there are new fixes for multiple vulnerabilities in MS Windows and/or Office without being told and since I don’t care about issues with multi-thousand-dollar Oracle/Cisco/Sun products). It’s rare that an alert really catches my eye [...]
The OpenBSD router machines I installed at my place and my parents’ have been failing and I’ve been doing band-aid fixes of little things as they break, but it’s annoying. My new idea is to use hardware routers, but to install one or more “slug” NSLU2 devices, unslung, inside each network to provide DNS and [...]
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Posted 17 May 2008
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Also tagged: alix, bsd, dell, dlink, dsl, ebay, gateway, linux, nslu2, pppoe, router, slug, ssh, unslung, vpn