direct connect hub live cd?

[bertaboy]

I'm contemplating creating a boot disk that only contains the bare minimum to run a direct connect hub, iptables, and whatever I need to forward ports to another computer. Does anyone know if there's a project for this already? I'd like to be able to use my 800mhz P3 that I just bought, but don't want to have to put up with hard drives, so if I could just have everything load into RAM, then disable the cd-rom drive, I'd imagine it would be pretty damn quiet.

Or would this be better to go onto gentoo-wiki and scavange through the live-cd tutorials?

[Eil]

You could try:

http://m0n0.ch/wall/
http://www.redwall-firewall.com/
http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/
http://www.wifi.com.ar/english/cdrouter.html
http://www.sentryfirewall.com/
http://www.xorp.org/livecd.html

Some of these are livecds (that store configuration on a floppy), others are floppy disk images (which can be burned onto a CD, if you desire.) See if any fit your needs.

I'm rather partial to IPCop (http://www.ipcop.org) since it has an excellent web interface for configuring everything you could want. Though it does unfortunately require a hard drive. I don't find that to be a major downfall, however, since quiet low-capacity disks are easy to come by.

[bertaboy]