For more information about how I installed NetBSD into the FLASH, by using QNX with PPP, checkout my page: http://www.digitron.com/iopener It is a bit lame at the moment, but I will be posting more details, etc once I get another unit to test with again. (e.g. my unit has NetBSD on it now, not QNX!) I will be looking at the possibility of hacking the scripts to allow use of any ISP instead of the Netpliance service, but I don't know how useful that will be anyway.
More than one USB ethernet should work under NetBSD, but I don't know of anyone who has tried it. It would be a bit slow, but for a firewall with only an ISDN/cable modem/DSL, then maybe 3Mbit/s would be fine.
I think the point was maybe that the trick to programming the flash is that an IDE device is required to boot, etc so you can run FDISK. So the "trick" would be to reprogram the flash without opening the case..:-) e.g. using QNX to blast a boot image into flash.
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For more information about how I installed NetBSD into the FLASH, by using QNX with PPP, checkout my page: http://www.digitron.com/iopener It is a bit lame at the moment, but I will be posting more details, etc once I get another unit to test with again. (e.g. my unit has NetBSD on it now, not QNX!) I will be looking at the possibility of hacking the scripts to allow use of any ISP instead of the Netpliance service, but I don't know how useful that will be anyway.
More than one USB ethernet should work under NetBSD, but I don't know of anyone who has tried it. It would be a bit slow, but for a firewall with only an ISDN/cable modem/DSL, then maybe 3Mbit/s would be fine.
I think the point was maybe that the trick to programming the flash is that an IDE device is required to boot, etc so you can run FDISK. So the "trick" would be to reprogram the flash without opening the case.. :-) e.g. using QNX to blast a boot image into flash.