Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer

Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by pnutjam on Friday February 01, 2019 @10:28AM (#19054844)

There are good linux distributions for console only x86 machines. I use voyage linux, which is a bit dated. Alpine linux is also a good choice, but a bit more difficult.

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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by cpach on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:07AM (#19055253)

Why not just Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora?

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Re:Revive a Cisco IDS into a Capable OpenBSD Computer by pnutjam on Friday February 01, 2019 @07:36PM (#19060149)

None of these have good support for serial port only devices. Fedora and Ubuntu take some tweaking to get them to pass real text to serial. Debian would probably work ok.

The biggest issue is they aren't designed for read-only partitions which is necessary for certain types of flash memory.

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