| Carl Johnson on 5 Jul 2014 19:22:46 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Easiest QoS/Router/Connection-trunking distro at this point? |
pfsense is decent. that's the only free one i'd recommend that does multi-wan. On July 5, 2014 10:17:42 PM EDT, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >On 07/05/2014 08:29 PM, Doug Stewart wrote: >> Howdy all, I've got a buddy who's cursed with two sub-par rural >> ISPs. He's looking to try to trunk the two connections so that he >> can run a single wifi connection but eg route Netflix over one ISP >> while his poor SSH sessions can trot along unimpeded. >> >> Used to be I'd recommend Astaro, but that apparently went poof >> years ago. So, who's got a strong rec for an easy to admin router >> distro these days that one can run on an old PC? >> > >UnTangle may still have a FOSS version: https://www.untangle.com/ >But that's a *stupid* easy to admin distro. > >However, if he wants something lightweight, shorewall can do bonding >and QoS, which is probably what he wants. He has to understand >networking basics (e.g. he doesn't need to be a CCNA or anything, but >if he even knows what the OSI model *is* then he's off to a great >start). Not for noobs, but INCREDIBLY powerful (and uses vanilla >iptables as a backend, even!): http://shorewall.net/ > >Shorewall has *very* good documentation. > >Vyatta (R.I.P.) was great and probably the leader in popularity for >this sort of thing, but was acquired and is dead now. >http://vyos.net/wiki/Main_Page is its forked reincarnation. > >He can also try the following if he's looking for something a bit more >newbie-friendly. I haven't touched anything with a GUI in years when >it comes to firewall administration, so I can't vouch for whether they >can do what he wants or how well/easy. But: > >http://www.smoothwall.org/ >https://www.pfsense.org/ (*great* for tiny/embedded devices) >https://openwrt.org/ (*VERY* wi-fi friendly, and very flexible. bit of >a learning curve- not as much as shorewall- but worth it) >http://bsdrp.net/ >http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html >http://m0n0.ch/wall/ (slightly different but similar feel to pfSense) >http://www.zeroshell.org/ (great for SMB's and wi-fi functions) > >And those are just the ones I've used/heard of over the past years. >There's more at >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_and_firewall_distributions > >HTH > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v2 >Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > >iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTuLHGAAoJEIwATC+TSB9rjtIP/1vvaOzjmQB44L55O4ClsdYF >9xO+8dbqS25/2HLG9GKzkimDMM4xGJz7anFe2qiaMTVAKva8J1tmhec2HHjqDD/4 >eLKAKdohb6yt7leRNmRaRhzs/immDxwLFoRFUI47g7SSHGqSnHPEuMhsQTgP4sPV >iD8A1fWYDonz/yuV4X4Lv1vk9yMle4cbLd0YCPd7o0ouL353Zxo3TMD4m01oNkUu >YAnByUKRgn6UQ2l4Zea6IA4YP2KQNCeVNLZH/qHqu0d1r13CkIEDeyqyFyYB+ucC >+OegNi7B9Bpj9n1vlj4PwdGt8wraJKEHcMECAmpW165j+U/tUMSynPatl5kA/IYU >KvxJnE2ZovI89wMrWTuKpcAKA1DifqcNj6roL8zoulrGoCIpk3zAs63FdB9Tp/Nh >HmQenu2nMZzSQC53w/gFknhismqOFzxkr/K1OE8gNyNR0wOEOkinfKNyxh2yVnhG >WGg7ZWkeaDW6uXTZYpmTXVghaqn9sMFWomZpZLYY7QfmeY8hSAvF3kkl3UPtECa1 >Qf8YhgHlg8/wD9i5i0pQNOPsoLPVQUEhbqE70tfE3snllhlLuB5MrBPPpmjfVzAu >2dBucYGqBlBLP2QUGDt1xpwBb1T1KOjT6rhE9tfHGyd92LvFy1RktNFKeH+/RgNE >+zYqaav53Z+geJRbHciC >=ahrr >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >___________________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >http://www.phillylinux.org >Announcements - >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >General Discussion -- >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Sent from my Motorola DynaTAC8000X ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug