discuss: proposal: Secure Internet for Small Office / Home Office HOWTO
Subject:
Re: proposal: Secure Internet for Small Office / Home Office HOWTO
From:
David Horton ####@####.####
Date:
26 Feb 2005 01:39:31 -0000
Message-Id: <421FD350.9030500@speakeasy.net>
Coert wrote:
> What once started as a simple notebook has grown into a document that
> might prove useful to others.
>
> The HOWTO describes how to bring up your own Firewall, Wireless Access
> Point and VPN Server on a single board computer. It currently uses
> the Geode SC1100 and Atheros WiFi NIC, but could easily be extended to
> include other hardware, drivers and services. For me it has been a
> fun project, and others might enjoy it too.
>
> While there are many HOWTOs describing some of the details of this
> document, I have not been able to find a complete description on how
> to bring up a system and make all the services work reliably.
>
> The current draft of the (docbook) document can be found at
> http://www.cybcon.com/~coert/linux/siso/index.html
>
> If there is an interest, I can contribute the document to the LDP.
> Suggestions for improvements are welcome. Please let me hear what you
> think.
>
> Cheers,
> Coert Vonk
>
Coert,
It is difficult to find good information about installing Linux on a
single board computer. Your howto does a good job of covering the
topic. I think it also fills some gaps in the TLDP collection
concerning the topics of installing to CompactFlash, PXE booting and
busybox/ulibc.
What do you think about changing the title slightly to let people know
that the HOWTO covers installation onto a single board computer? Maybe
"Secure Internet *Appliance* for Small Office / Home Office HOWTO"
Otherwise people might think it's an Internet security howto for any
common off the shelf distro.
Also, there are a couple of minor things in the document that I had
questions about. In Section 2.2 after "Make<<EOF" and Section 3.3.1
under "fdisk $FLASH_DEV<<EOF" there appear to be some screenshots of
just random characters. I'm assuming some information got left out by
mistake. Also Section 5.1 mentions the class B reserved range
172.16.0.0/12, but in the not below it is left out. Again, I'm assuming
it's just a typo.
All-in-all I think it looks like a very good document and would be a
good fit for TLDP's collection. The DocBook markup is already done and
the license is compatible. I would recommend that TLDP include it in
the collection.
David Horton
