[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

[James Sumners]

I used to have an old P2 box with wired and wireless NICs to do what
you are wanting. Actually, I still have it but it hasn't been booted
in years. Anyway, I moved over to a Linksys WRT54GL with the Tomato
firmware several years and haven't not regretted it.

I have been looking to upgrade to 802.11n recently and came across the
same routers you have. I don't think either of those is a good buy
because they are not truly dual-band devices. If you're going to
upgrade to an 802.11n system while retaining support for 802.11b/g and
maximizing your 802.11n throughput and range, then you need a
dual-band device. A dual-band device essentially has two radios, one
for 802.11n and another for 802.11b/g. Thereby allowing 802.11n to run
on the 5GHz band and 802.11b/g on 2.4GHz.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:46 AM, jrtroberts <jrtroberts at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 07/14/10 22:13, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> You can download a 10MB (!!!) ISO of TinyCore Linux to run in a
>> VirtualBox VM. It boots in less than a second! Once booted you can use
>> its built it package manager to install a few packages and then choose
>> "Burn USB Drive" to create a thumb drive you can boot from. I would
>> suggest pulling the drives out to save power. Using a P2 is likely to
>> cost a lot more in energy in 1 year than you would spend on an SBC.
>>
> After looking into wireless routers that will run dd-wrt, I am thinking
> it might be better to go with something like the Linksys E series
> routers, probably the E2000 or E3000.  This will upgrade the wireless b
> to n and give me the gigabit connection I might need in the future.
> Thoughts?  Not that the linux box is not a valid option, but if I can
> get a network upgrade out of the deal it seems like a better choice.
>
> I will; however, take a look at the distros listed in this thread and
> become more familiar with them.  And I might even setup the linux box
> with 2 or more nics just for fun.
>
>> On 7/14/10, Doug McNash<dmcnash at charter.net>  wrote:
>>
>>> I run voyage (http://linux.voyage.hk) on a 128Mb Sokris net4801 as a cups
>>> server.  It is Debian based so you can apt-get what you need.
>>>
>>> --
>>> doug mcnash
>>>
>>> ---- jrtroberts<jrtroberts at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am looking for a very lightweight distro, something to run on a P2 era
>>>> computer maybe a bit earlier, It only needs to function as a router.  So
>>>> I need to use IP Tables to route between maybe two - five networks, My
>>>> sisters lan/internet connection in her APT and my father's backup
>>>> server(on a separate VLAN) in the house proper.  I am hoping that my
>>>> father has an old box that has room for 2 nic cards.  That seems to be
>>>> the cheapest route at the moment.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Joshua
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