Actually, a nice option would be to set up and trim out everything
for a PPPoE firewall, and wrap that up in a tarball. Then you boot off the
floppy, and grab that tarball from the LAN, and shove it into RAMdisk. That
would make for better security, quicker loading into RAMdisk, and less
hassle (you wouldn't need to setup PPPoE just to start the box...

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-> How about a single floppy with just the PPPoE drivers and ftp, then
-> it can mount_mfs /usr and pull down anything else it needs into RAM?
-> (probably less than 1MB of stuff compressed?)
-> This would happen on each reboot, but the same base floppy could
-> probably be used on almost any configuration. (with a high bandwidth
-> link)
-> Also, it could be set to pull the tarballs from a local 
-> machine rather
-> than off the net everytime.
-> You would have some of the advantages of netboot (minimal code on the
-> local media) only needing an ftp or http server available, inside or
-> outside wouldn't necessarily matter.
-> 
-> After all how often does a NetBSD box need to be rebooted?
-> (hint: http://www.uptimes.net/)
-> 
-> -Andrew
-> 
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