[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro

[jrtroberts]

On 07/15/10 09:18, James Sumners wrote:
> 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.
>
>    
So this specification blurb from the cisco web site is not true?

Cisco Linksys E3000
http://homestore.cisco.com/en-us/Routers/Linksys-E3000L-HighPerformance-Wirelessn-router_stcVVproductId97826163VVcatId551966VVviewprod.htm#

Bands:Simultaneous 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz

or this blurb from CNET.com reviews

http://reviews.cnet.com/routers/cisco-linksys-e3000/4505-3319_7-34041744.html

*The good:* The Cisco Linksys High Performance Wireless-N Router E3000 
delivers most of what you'd expect from a high-end router, including 
true dual-band, Gigabit Ethernet, fast throughput, a long range, NAS 
functionality,

and the lack of features in The bad: section of the CNET.com review are 
more than compensated for when the firmware is upgraded to the dd-wrt.

just some thoughts.

And no, the E2000 is not a true dual band.  But it does seem like the 
E3000 is.
> 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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