Hi everyone, A month ago I developed a small, ramdisk only (ie diskless), linux system whose only purpose was to run a tor server. The aim of the project was to meet the following goals: 1) small footprint - i686 (single or SMP) with 256MB+ RAM 2) to run only in ram so nothing survives a reboot 3) to do no logging whatsoever at any level 4) to be secure - GRSEC hardened kernel 5) to run a tor server, allowing for any configuration, middle/exit/directory, etc I suspect such a project might be of interest to other Tor operators. I ran a middle-man node for about 20 days with success (node-name=RamOnly), but because I compiled statically against GLIBC, I broke DNS resolution, and so it would not work as an exit node. I've rebuild the image from scratch compiling against UCLIBC and I'm now in the testing phase again. I'm running another middle-man/directory server (node-name=RamOnlyUCLIBC). Here's the url for the howto and the image: ftp://ddl.dyc.edu/pub/tor-uclibc-ramdisk The kernel is compiled with support for most 100MB and 1GB NIC cards. Any comments or testers would be much appreciated. More details: busybox-1.8.2 - minimally configured, compiled with UCLIBC linux-2.6.23.12 patched with Gentoo's hardening patches (GRSEC) tor-1.2.19 --- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Director of Information Technology, D'Youville College, 320 Porter Ave. Buffalo NY, 14201 ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE