Re: [PLUG] Easiest QoS/Router/Connection-trunking distro at this point?

["Keith C. Perry" <kperry@daotechnologies.com>]

Soren,

My thinking tends to be more like yours.  Specialized builds are going to probably require special things- one of which is probably the ability to run a browser at 1024x768.  Withoutspecs its hard to say if "old" here means that the hardware in question can handle a gui.  I would always want to make sure the cli could do every the gui could in regards to configuration.  When you consider that, mainstream distro becomes attractive.  Digging through http://distrowatch.org might bear fruit.


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Soren Harward" <stharward@gmail.com>
To: "Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List" <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2014 10:59:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Easiest QoS/Router/Connection-trunking distro at this	point?

On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, who's got a strong rec for an easy to admin router distro these days that one can run on an old PC?

If he's going to run his system it on a PC loaded with NICs, then he
may as well just run Debian or Ubuntu or some other desktop distro.
It won't come with a GUI that sets up his multi-WAN network with a few
clicks, but the user communities are much better, and someone [1] will
be able to help him with the handful of configuration settings he'll
need to get started.  Long-term, a regular desktop distro is going to
be easier to maintain than a more specialized router-oriented distro
like OpenWRT, pfsense or shorewall.

[1] Like this guy: http://chris.olstrom.com/howto/setup-dual-wan/

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