On Wed, Sep 19, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
location would be enough. If I had some old 7200s lying around I'd use those, in locations where replacing drives isn't a huge deal a BSD box (Linux if you insist) would be a good choice because they give you a bigger CPU for your money.
As someone who is building little compact flash and USB flash based BSD boxes for various tasks, I can quite happily say its entirely possible to build diskless based Linux/BSD routers which are upgraded about as easy as upgrading a Cisco router (ie, copy over new image, run "save-config" script, reboot.) Its been that way for quite some time. If there's interest I'll hack up a FreeBSD nanobsd image with ipv6 support, a routing daemon (whatever people think is good enough) and whatever other stuff is "enough" to act as a 6to4 gateway. You too can build diskless core2duo software routers for USD $1k. Adrian