[ltp] laptop as firewall

[wes schreiner]

Jim Redmond wrote:

> Richard Griffith wrote:
>
>> Even better, use a distro designed for the task, and don't use a hard
>> drive at all. For example LEAF or LRP: http://lrp.steinkuehler.net/
>
> LRP doesn't natively support PCMCIA. However, if you've got space on 
> the LRP boot disk, check out 
> ftp://monsoon.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/Linux/pcmcia.lrp - a dedicated hack 
> added PCMCIA support to his LRP disk, and crammed it into 255KB. I 
> haven't tried it myself, though.
>
That sounds like overkill. One doesn't need full card services on a 
firewall. How about using dummy_cs.o (from the pcmcia package) to get 
the pcmcia card enabled and configured? That should work, and dummy_cs.o 
is less than 7K bytes.

wes