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From: Sumeet Singh Parmar <sparmar@veraznet.com>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [LARTC] ideal router distribution
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:36:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-106886394702054@msgid-missing> (raw)

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I have acquired a dual 10/100 intel nic for my router (yay!). I have a
question: What would characterise the ideal distribution for router + mini
file server sort of work? Personally I use gentoo and I like it because I
can take advantage of constantly updating s/w packages by compiling from
source. 

However for a router, I think one would want a stable, secure/hardened
distribution that handles patches well and any changes to kernel and/or
packages can be rolled back in case an upgrade goes wrong.

Any advice/suggestion is most appreciated!

Thanks a lot!!
-Sumeet

ps I don't know if someone has experimented with a back-up system images
i.e. an initrd based system, so the root fs is always in the initrd and an
upgrade is a matter of swapping out kernel and/or initrd image?

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-15  2:36 Sumeet Singh Parmar [this message]
2003-11-15 10:47 ` [LARTC] ideal router distribution Stef Coene

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