John Li wrote:
Hi John,
One small concern about that little Linksys box is the limited number
of sessions it can handle. I used to put Linux firmware into WRT54G
and it just worked fine until thounsands of concurrent sessions
happened. It just became irresponsive and I had to reboot it. I tried
fine tune the kernel parameters but could not get it fixed. Then I
turned to general Intel platform with obviously more memory and this
did the trick.
As for the massive deployment with little linux knowledge involved,
I've also tried to make my own little CD distro which can boot up and
read config just from floppy disk. This works well because you can
make configuration and make massive duplication in central place. Then
you just need to have people turned on the box with CD and floppy and
you have your firewall up right away. This is also good for you to
tighten the security process.
My little 2cents and thank you for initiate this great topic :-)
John,
Take a look at the Devil Linux (www.devil-linux.org) distribution -
which boots and runs completely from CDROM. The configuration can be
saved to a floppy diskette or a USB pen drive. I've used this in a
number of sites.
It's a powerful distro with a lot of options (if you so choose). The
biggest downside is that there is no great GUI to configure the device,
but if you are OK with command line, you won't have a problem.
If a PC fails,it is trivial to get another one running, just move the CD
and floppy/USB key to another unit and boot.
Martin
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