Interceptor Online
Well, finally took my wonky Netgear MR314 out of service and replaced it with the SPARCstation 10 running NetBSD, which I have named Interceptor, after Shadow’s dog in Final Fantasy 6. It’s not operating as an 802.11b access point yet, since the kernel panics when I insert the wireless card, but I’ll get that working eventually.
NetBSD is pretty sweet for firewall/router stuff. The ethernet bridging config is so much nicer than FreeBSD’s, treating the bridge as another interface and configing it though it’s own config util, instead of just fiddling around in sysctl stuff. The NAT stuff is much cooler as well, and you can actually see the state of the translation table, which is one thing that always kindof bugged me in FreeBSD (maybe there is a way and I just don’t know it.)
Anyway, I need to run out and pick up a couple of crossover cables so the TiVo can connect to it.
