for source browsing, documentation and bug handling.
2005-04-16: I am slowing down again with floppyfw-2.99.4 with mainly bug fixes. The Changelog has the details. Go here for download of the many different versions there are now.
2005-03-15: It's always nice to be mentioned, this time on Newsforge.
2005-03-01: I made an irc channel on oftc.net. The name is, of course, #floppyfw.
2005-02-07: floppyfw-2.0.11. Kernel 2.4.29. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2005-03-20: I am a liar. I said, while releaseing 2.99.1, that it's a freeze for release. Well, it wasn't. floppyfw-2.99.3 is the version and the Changelog are quite big, with a new (extra) package format and lzma compressed initrd are the biggest changes. Go here for download of the many different versions there are now.
2005-02-28: The first kinda frozen prerelase: floppyfw-2.99.1. Kernel 2.4.29, uClibc 0.9.27 . See Changelog for details and here for download. New devkit aswell.
2004-11-20: Ad-blocking using floppyfw. Brad Skiff has made a package with DNS based ad blocking.
2004-11-14: There has been a few unannounced development versions but I feel like announcing this one here at least.floppyfw-2.9.13. Kernel 2.4.27 and it now has Wondershaper. See Changelog for details and here for download of the many different versions there are now of which the flash is new (and not tested).
2004-08-30: Still no house but I got some time to build floppyfw-2.9.9. Kernel 2.4.27 and it now has Wondershaper. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2004-08-29: floppyfw-2.0.10. Kernel 2.4.27. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2004-05-25: floppyfw-2.0.9. Kernel 2.4.26. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2004-05-11: Some status; 2.9 goes along, new (unannounced) devkit is released (If you are curious about the development, check the development download directory from time to time and of course the newsgroups (Which is where I found this little cute GIF.). A 2.0.9 is also long overdue. The reason for me being a bit slow is that all free time is spent finding a new house since we sold the flat.
2004-01-04: floppyfw-2.9.6. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-12-11: floppyfw-2.0.8. Kernel 2.4.23. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-09-14: Introducing Blastfw, a very specialized version of the forthcoming floppyfw 3.0.
2003-09-07: floppyfw-2.9.5. Alot has happened, bridgine with both ebtables and iptables, ready ISO images available, SSH server (dropbear) available in the packages directory , images for Soekris is back. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-08-28: floppyfw-2.0.7. Kernel 2.4.22. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-07-05: 2.0.5 was not exactly the best version I've made so here is floppyfw-2.0.6. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-06-18: floppyfw-2.0.5. Kernel 2.4.21. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-05-08: Ok, the news server has been flakey the last few days. I decided to switch from a self compiled INN to the Debian package. It's not perfect yet (the configs I use, not the package).
2003-02-14: floppyfw-2.9.1. This is the road to 3.0 and contains many changes, both small and huge. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2003-02-11: I've made a new directory for development stuff. There might be a little, ehh, surprise there now.
2003-03-02: floppyfw-2.9.2. This is the road to 3.0 and contains even more changes. See Changelog for details and here for download and install. (And yes, I forgot to add this announcement..)
2002-12-10: floppyfw-2.0.4. Kernel 2.4.20. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
There are work going on with a new development version, see the floppyfw.devel news group if you are interested in following the development.
2002-12-01: floppyfw-1.0.15. Kernel 2.2.23. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2002-10-06: A new news group, floppyfw.devel has been created. Check the Discussions/forums and Contribution web page.
2002-09-20: I'm still not perfect and a fix wasn fixed but a new bug introduced (forgot the /tmp directory). Minor glitch. Result: floppyfw-2.0.2. See Changelog for details and the download page for other images (1680K, 1680K-pppoe and ISO).
2002-09-22: floppyfw-1.0.14. Kernel 2.2.22. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2002-09-04: I'm not perfect and a fix wasn't fixed. Minor glitch. Result: floppyfw-2.0.1. See Changelog for details and the download page for other images (1680K, 1680K-pppoe and ISO).
2002-08-25: Finally: floppyfw-2.0.0. See Changelog for details and the download page for other images (1680K and pppoe).
2002-08-11: floppyfw-1.9.99. Kernel 2.4.19 and iptables 1.2.7. Hopefully the last one of the 1.9 series. I'm chicken enough not to make this a 2.0.0. See Changelog for details and the download page for other images (1680K and pppoe).
2002-06-30: floppyfw-1.0.13. Kernel 2.2.21 and some other small changes here and there. See Changelog for details and here for download and install.
2002-03-31: floppyfw-1.9.20. Kernel 2.4.18 and some other small changes here and there. See Changelog for details
2002-02-08: floppyfw-1.9.19. Kernel 2.4.18 and some other small changes here and there. See Changelog for details
2001-12-24: Ken Yap has made an ISO image of the 1.9 series.
2001-12-29: floppyfw-1.9.16. Many small fixes and two new 1680K images, one bacis and one with PPPoE.
2002-01-20: floppyfw-1.9.18. This time with one feature removed from the base, traffic shaping in now a package because of it's size. See Changelog for details
2002-01-06: floppyfw-1.9.17. Now with downloadable kernel modules, basic 1.44M image, 1680K image and PPPoE image(1680K). See Changelog for details
2001-12-23: floppyfw-1.9.15. Just a bugfix for 1.9.14.
2001-12-22: floppyfw-1.9.14. Now with kernel 2.4.17. See Changelog for details. Main change is that we now use busybox internal ash instead of debians ash.
2001-11-28: floppyfw-1.0.12.3. Just yet another bug fix (with the dhcp server script). See Changelog for details
2001-11-17: floppyfw-1.0.12.1. Just a bug fix (with the dhcp server script). See Changelog for details
2001-12-11: Fwbuilder is now supporting floppyfw.
2001-11-24: A Windows installation and configuring program developed by Stig Aga Aandstad. Please test it and report on the news group.
2001-08-27: Another web page with floppyfw packages some really nice ones.
2001-05-18: The newsgroup is now available on the web, both reading and posting is possible.
2001-11-11: floppyfw-1.0.12. Now with kernel 2.2.20. See Changelog for details
2001-10-14: floppyfw-1.9.10. Now with kernel 2.4.12. See Changelogfor details
2001-09-29: floppyfw-1.9.9. Now with kernel 2.4.10 and Math emulation removed. . See Changelogfor details
2001-08-27: Another web page with floppyfw packages some really nice ones.
2001-05-19: floppyfw-1.0.11. With better support for the PPPoE stuff, VPN patches and NIC's based on the RealTek rt8139. New for this version (well, for 1.0.10.1 wich was never really announced) is the floppyfw-1.0.11-pppoe image and the support for the VPN masquerade modules.Changelog
2001-06-03: floppyfw-1.9.4. Now with kernel 2.4.5, iproute2 and traffic shaping (tc and rtmon) . See Changelogfor details
2001-04-10: The italian magazine Linea Edp has an article about floppyfw.
2001-04-07Those reading the news group knows that i am working on 1.0.10 and that we are now into pre5 of this release. It's in the download directory.
2001-03-10 In the category not nessesarily useful, but cool we now have a micro_httpd package. Yup, a webserver. It is not possible to use this for configuration and it won't exactly help security but if you need to server one file from somewhere you do have a quite instant webserver. It was made by Andreas Schweitzer.
2001-03-04: More local sites around, this time it's a Dutch site for users of the Mxstream package used in Holland. This was submitted to me by the author, E.M. Janssen.
2001-02-21Got a tip about these French pages for how to use floppyfw on french ADSL lines. it looks very good and also have it's own image with PPTP as many french ISPs seem to use this instead of PPoE.
2001-01-15: Bad (sector). the latest images was a bit hard to get obviously. I definately need a new hard drive.. they should be downloadable now.
2001-01-14: floppyfw-1.0.9. Now working with the PPPoE packages. Changelog
2001-01-13: floppyfw-1.9.3. Now with kernel 2.4.0 and I'll declare it a beta. See Changelogfor details
2001-01-08: SysAdmin Magazine has made an article about floppyfw available. It's an introduction and a good HOWTO. LinuxToday has a story with discussion about the article.
2000-12-30: floppyfw-1.0.7. Now with kernel 2.2.18 and some other small changes as a better way to add the PPPoE stuff, which also has a new 1.0.7 version. (which seems to be a bit broken, fix coming soon, use 1.0.6 for now)
2000-12-22: Ken Yap has implemented scripts for booting floppyfw over the net in his Etherboot package. The 4.6.12 version is the first one with this. Check out contrib/mkffwnb/ in the tarfile.
2000-11-20: floppyfw-1.9.2 is out. Some of you has been monitoring the news group and the download area and has noticed the 1.9.1 image. This is the 1.9 development series and contains kernel 2.4 and iptables. the rest follows the 1.1 development. See the Changelog for details, as usual.
2000-11-17: New "design" on the web pages. Basically, some experimentation with SSI resulted in a menu on the left side and a shorter main page. I hope this works on most browsers, it needed some changes in the css file.
2000-11-02: Brad Wood has done it again. Now he has made a 1.0.6 version of floppyfw with PPPoE. it can be found in the PPPoE directory in the contrib area.
2000-10-05: the Beta release, floppyfw-1.1.2 is available. I need feedback from you users. see the Changelog for details. Consider this a beta, it might not work. I do need feedback from you users, it's hard to find bugs without.
2000-09-24: floppyfw-1.0.6. Now with kernel 2.2.17 and a security upgrade of glibc, syslogd and klogd (from the debian slink security update.).
2000-08-08: Ups and downs. Castle, the server I run everything on, seems to not want to be stable these days. Now it is one or two of it's hard drives that is trying to gain control over the SCSI bus and hang it. With luck from time to time. I may start on the search for new HW, at least solve the problem somehow.
2000-07-24: Bad luck struck me. The mainboard blew a fuse while I was on vacation and I wasn't able to fix it until today. Only good news I can give is that I've started working on a glibc 2.1 / Linux 2.4 version of floppyfw, which will be 1.9 when it's released as a beta and 2.0 of floppyfw when we're all happy with it. But first, my last week of vacation.
2000-07-14: Brad Wood contributed something again. This time it was all the network modules and a few others, for 2.2.16 and floppyfw 1.0.5. they are in download/contrib/Modules/ together with a simple instruction Readme.
2000-05-14: floppyfw-1.0.4. Now with kernel 2.2.15 and added support for the tulip based cards and intel EEpro series.
2000-05-14: made a contrib directory for contributions. This is for other stuff than the pure .bz2 packages. Right now it's only Brad Wood's PPPoE stuff, which is also new.
2000-05-14: Made ip_masq_icq available. read the Readme for instructions.
April 2000: News server. I made a news group om ny news server instead of maintaining a mailing list. floppyfw.general is the only one I've made so far. the news server is news.zelow.no and it is open but has no external news groups.
April 2000: Anonymous ftp is now possible. www.zelow.no has it.
2000-03-20: Ramon Leon has made this firewall.ini and it's pretty extensive. I haven't tested it but feel free to try it out and comment it to either him or me.
The packages directory now contains a PPP package. not tested but some people have gotten it to work with some tweaking.
A Mirror list is available, hopefully it will grow bigger. If you mirror this site or just the download, please let me know.
Another Japanese floppyfw page at Kochi Linux User Group's web pages. This is a Japanese mirror of this site with the pages in Japanese.
A Japanese FAQ is made, it's a part of the Japanese FAQ/DOC Collection
Beginners instructions. David A. Nelson wrote this quite long and nice description and document.
DHCP-support is now a part of the basic floppy.
Made a VPN package out of VPND, vpnd.bz2
