Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband joining both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access. You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al. Html should be off in mails. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband joining both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access. You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al. Html should be off in mails. -- /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion. Cheers, -- Linux User #452368 http://twitter.com/vpadro Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Victor Padro wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband joining both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access. You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al. Html should be off in mails. -- /Sorin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion. Cheers, PFSense or IPCop, IPCop is a little easier to configure IMO. http://www.netzensolutions.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion. One caveat is hardware support. I assume because it is FreeBSD and not Linux About a month or two ago I decided to go out and google for firewall distros. I made a short list which include pfSense, IPCop, and one other. My first choice was pfSense so I tried it first - and did not get very far. The PC I tried it on is about 5 years old, but had 1GB RAM, big enough HD and so on. I could not get pfSense to even install on it and decided not even to put any effort into it so I moved right on to IP Cop which installed without a catch. The irony is that I have a just about identical piece of hardware which runs my firewall right now. It is running a fairly old FreeBSD distro with no issues. It seems it is the newer FreeBSD that has issues, either that or the particulars of how pfSense slices and dices FreeBSD. Of course this is only 1 datapoint. I'd at least recommend trying it on your hardware. If it works, then don't look back. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of KJS Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS PFSense or IPCop, IPCop is a little easier to configure IMO. Is IPCop the one that is so similar to Smoothwall, and also able to share mods? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Am 10.12.2009 um 01:39 schrieb Alvaro Schneider Guevara: Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband joining both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access. ¿is this possible? ¿too much complicated? Searching the Net i found something simliar: http://linux-ip.net/html/adv-multi-internet.html but, I would like to read a second opinion. Thank you very much. Cheers. _ Use pfSense (www.pfsense.org) for that. It's based on FreeBSD, but you don't really need care about the OS - it comes with a web-gui that can configure everything (fail-over, WAN- loadbalancing/failover). Unless you want to spend a lot of time and never get it right 100%... Rainer___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
you can take a look at SYSWAN SW24 10/100Mbps Dual WAN Load Balancer Gabe -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alan McKay Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 8:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that. -- Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Alan McKay wrote: just download one of the firewall distros that have the built in pfSense (FreeBSD) or IPCop (Linux) are the first 2 to mind. ClarkConnect is another good one though it may have limited functionality without paying, I don't know for sure. But we paid for it at work and it works really well for doing that. IPCop, if I recall correctly, doesn't load balance or fail-over - pfsense does. Ian smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
