| Doug Stewart on 5 Jul 2014 19:32:52 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Easiest QoS/Router/Connection-trunking distro at this point? |
Yeah, the GUI is going to be key, I think. He's got an old PC with three NICs, so the hardware is covered. Thanks for the recs, all! -- Doug Stewart > On Jul 5, 2014, at 10:30 PM, brent timothy saner <brent.saner@gmail.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > >> On 07/05/2014 10:23 PM, Keith C. Perry wrote: >> This probably isn't the "easy" solution but for a number of years I >> used to keep hardware around to build spare routers running the >> Slax live CD. Its a variant of Slackware. He could store the >> routing and any other config data on the internal hard drive and >> call them from there. If this person is not familiar with Linux >> this would probably be too much for him. If they are then I'll add >> that you could also re-author the iso and a create permanent router >> image :) >> >> http://www.slax.org/ >> >> I still keep a CD with me for when my usb flash or hd drives don't >> boot. Slax or Backtrack (which a security distro but I find its >> well suited to building routers and network security nodes). > > Slax would definitely be overkill, I should think. Not that I don't > agree with you- I use Arch on my dedicated firewalls (and OpenWRT on > my embedded stuff/wifi APs), but I enjoy having that level of control. > Might be a bit daunting of a setup for someone looking for a dedicated > routing distro. There used to be a liveCD distro specifically for > routers, and specifically intended to be run in RAM... but I can't > recall which it is now. > > Oh! I forgot one- > http://www.ipcop.org/index.php > Fairly popular, but I doubt it supports bonding or QoS pairing of two > different WANs. At least through the GUI. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2 > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTuLTEAAoJEIwATC+TSB9rdX4P/2JmeMxN/bw+WU5n684ghlc5 > KYBwUB7Smx0tqIGNeWMulIS9YInEZ06BgLcTK9TWfQqlTv7L7T0kqeqs0lRyLbfN > siLqVlsV32LqbkJIBJsYEUIc6cQ7G4gQnVUz8NPifb4kkvDWsxk77Y3K2VkmwMMH > cNQc72fXqzdTZOn6uKsreGU7q0dNhzAOZinaAtJJJXAmzfh16xgT5vMFNUE9NBFg > icmL93fEhEWigJ+zlbPHQr0JNPPEL5i5n8nvvK70MwKmUhJ33F5bjg78i1vKbCM4 > 5GwIkEekithSggZn5GMS/QS6z9QzA5cJ5zblW1YlyIVC8+4No1J1pEv7bvmTgecM > jrkEiXZLH1VMARJXKxPKGcbaa/mwim9j5HePGZCtlH04ZE/vIh6+fVCilbmRx+AM > cJ9YI1ISfk6V58u/mrsae7qeQBvX1+xOR2zOOUDb6uG7M4yatJdrwnv6t/s2gcEx > /ogz136n9rNEIvQv3/5l9ba6EhSAuaSMT/MlT6CfamApbIiu4650ReQgovGspwYO > TGVqc/pUuZEH5CsBfPeQ/i1YZxHdDC0zC5gFkuqApLiFMioG9jOnQk+7vFe6Cyg5 > KTBUX44ki4R7G6sq40lDZTPsyE8QriESve8vy7Xc8zBqH741zanAhjDFckYP5e1H > fKSEQ+YX4Jrj/cLjystT > =DKpv > -----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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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