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05-22-2003, 01:17 AM
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Minimum Requirements for Linux Router
Hi all,
What are the minimum system requirements for setting up a linux router? Will a 486 do? How much ram is needed? Thanks in advance. |
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05-22-2003, 01:40 AM
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You can find routers that will do a 486. My fav is smoothwall, but couldn't tell you what the reqs are.
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05-22-2003, 01:47 AM
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Most standard distros come with everything you need (except the hardware!) to set up a router. A 486 with minamal RAM should work, but as always more is better. just leave the X stuff out and run from the command line. In fact, if you are comfortable with a *nix prompt, why not set your router up with freeBSD or even OpenBSD? At any rate, you will want at least two networkcards.
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05-22-2003, 11:58 AM
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Thanks for the replies guys. I planning on using one of those popular linux router distros that fits on a floppy. Would freeBSD or openBSD be better? I'd be more than willing to learn about them if that's the better way to go. TIA.
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05-22-2003, 12:31 PM
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Openbsd is "supposed" to be more secure than run of the mill Linux. I would be more concerned with latency and general network performance...
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05-22-2003, 01:04 PM
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I haven't seen a version of BSD that will run on a floppy like the one at LinuxRouter.org Make sure that you have a decent NIC like 3Com or Intel since you will have to load the driver on the diskette. I have set one up but it has been awhile back.
If you decide to use a hard drive then you can install Linux or BSD. Security shouldn't be much of an issue since you are going to have a bare minimum of services running. |
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05-24-2003, 10:33 PM
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Mine was a 486-100 with 24 megs of ram running Coyote, had no problems at all.
3COM 509 isa nics are probably the easiest to get running and the most common you'll find out there used, try to pick up a couple of those. |
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05-25-2003, 02:07 AM
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I have a bag full of old 10mbit 3com Etherlink III ISA cards, so they should work fine. Did you have a hdd in yours, Xayd? TIA.
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05-26-2003, 10:29 PM
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Nope, no HD.
The files for the OS are zipped, everything runs in memory. There's a manual function to re-zip edited config files into the original zips, but otherwise it's 100% ramdrive. All you need to do for those nics is get the utility from 3COM's ftp to turn PnP off and set them to their own IRQ/IO addresses. |
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