[LARTC] ideal router distribution

[LARTC] ideal router distribution

[Sumeet Singh Parmar]

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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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Re: [LARTC] ideal router distribution

[Stef Coene]

On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:36, Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote:
> 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!
Debian rules :)
You have a lot of control and cron-apt can be used to keep your system 
up-to-date with the latest security patches.  

Stef

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