Very Computer

I'm building a small linux machine for a home broadband router
and firewall. The machine is based on a VIA "eden" C3 cpu on the
VIA EPIA-5000 board. What I want to find is the current
linux mini-distro that would be ideal to run on this.

I've found something called CoyoteLinux, would that work best?
One essential is that I want to run iptables and not ipchains.

Mark

Any of several small distros will do the job. Not sure if CoyoteLinux
does iptables now, but Floppyfw sure does (www.zelow.no/floppyfw).

Quote:> I'm building a small linux machine for a home broadband router
> and firewall. The machine is based on a VIA "eden" C3 cpu on the
> VIA EPIA-5000 board.

What kind of power-supply do you use? Have you found an DC/DC-board?

http://www.casetronic.com/Product/PCcase/CheckerCube/checkercube.html
not cheap but there's very few choices for ITX yet and
I didn't want to wait. I'll be getting cable modem soon.

Annoyingly, the ribbon cable to the front USB ports
in the case I received by UPS will not reach the USB
motherboard port on the EPIA-5000 board. I found out
that the EPIA board has a non-standard USB header on
the extra USB port (J9 on the board). I guess casetronic
made the cable short to protect people from plugging it
in(?) to the non-standard plug.

There's at least a pdf that points out what the pins are, so
maybe I can rig up a usb cable:

http://www.ultim8pc.co.uk/miscpics/epia_pin.pdf

Mark

Sure but that CPU power is only needed for running services like squid,
etc. It takes little CPU power to run a packet filter. Some people feel
that a firewall should not run any unnecessary services, on the other
hand some don't want an extra server. One advantage of running a
stripped down firewall is that you don't need a disk so it can be
quieter.