Hello, long time no see.
I've been using FREESCO as my router software for 5 years. It did a great job as router, firewall, print server and sometimes FTP, but i guess it's time to move to something a bit more complete.
I found a dirt cheap Dell Optiplex 110, a slim PC which has a P3-733, onboard everything and 3 PCI slots. Just the thing for the gigabit network upgrade i've been wanting to do for a while (my current box only has 2 PCI slots). I also want to add a wireless card in the 3rd slot, as i know that certain cards can work as an AP with linux, so there would be no need for a dedicated wireless router. I don't like wireless routers because they're underpowered and poorly built. They run hot, they lock up, capacitors fail... My FREESCO box has been pretty much maintenance free, it just works.
I asked over at the FREESCO forums and it does not support running wireless cards. I don't want a much larger distro like Debian or CentOS. I have lots of SDRAM if need be, but i'm afraid a big distro will add too much CPU overhead and bog down that little PIII. For the record my current FREESCO box is a Fujitsu running a PII-300 and it does just fine.
So, does Puppy have the support for running a wireless router? I'm comfortable with installing extra packages and editing configuration files.
Thanks,
Andrew
Puppy Linux Router?
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Hi Andrew
This has been discussed many times, but I've never done it, though it doesn't seem that hard
examples:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33615
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37520
searchtool
http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html
A fully configurable non-puppy solution is zeroshell
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
HTH
Aitch
This has been discussed many times, but I've never done it, though it doesn't seem that hard
examples:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33615
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=37520
searchtool
http://www.wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html
A fully configurable non-puppy solution is zeroshell
http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/
HTH
Aitch
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