[ale] Distro for router/server?

[Mazukna, Thomas]

I would recommend getting Netgear RT311 or RT314 cable/Dsl router.
It will keep the connection up, supports PPPOE, has a DHCP server,
can update dyndns.org when ip changes, does firewal, NAT, remote logging,
static routing, RT314 has even 4 port switch. So you can leave linux handle
service part. 
I got it a week ago and been very happy. How I can try all the distros
before 
I pick one without bringing down DSL connection for other pcs.

Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael B Golden [mailto:naugrim at juno.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:02 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Distro for router/server?


Hello all,
        A friend of mine recently got DSL and has given me the task of
setting up a linux router for him since the Win98 connection sharing is
quirky and doesn't work half the time for him. We also want to be able to
run apache, and ftp server, a samba server, a firewall, some sort of ad
and porn filter, and probably an OpenSSH server on it. The box we have to
work with is a Pentium 90 with 16 MB RAM. Will this box handle all of
these tasks or will we have to cut back a little? If so, which are the
most resource intensive that we should/could do away with? Also, what
would be the best distribution to run on this type of box? I'm pretty
sure one with a 2.4 kernel would work best because of the DSL, but I'm
not sure. We don't plan to install X at all, but some type of config
tools for network/routing/firewall would be nice to have. I'm thinking
perhaps Slackware, but I haven't used it since version 3.5, so I'm not
sure if it has what we want and I'm not nearly as experienced with it.
I'd even thought about trying a BSD, but I have nearly no experience with
them and I'm on a more limited time frame than I though. Any suggestions?

Michael Golden
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