I deployed ipcop[0] routers a few times. Ipcop was a pretty good router. It could be booted off a 1.44MB floppy disk. It was built using LFS, so it took a whil

I deployed ipcop[0] routers a few times. Ipcop was a pretty good router. It could be booted off a 1.44MB floppy disk. It was built using LFS, so it took a while to install on a home-grade machine (like, a day!). This was ages ago; apparently they're still going. I didn't learn anything from installing it, except that it's possible, as a user, to build the whole toolchain, the OS, and the application, starting from assembly language. And that using LFS, you can make a really tiny Linux. Making a router was a good application of LFS; I'm surprised the search engines have forgotten it. [0] http://www.ipcop.org/ http://www.ipcop.org/ It's important that we can always do that.