On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:17 AM, G.D.Naidu <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can spend little money on this work, then i prefer you Mikrotik Router > os, which has made by linux. There all things are quite easy and you can > implement AAA too. >
You don't need to buy a microtik router for this. From Microtik's documentation: "MikroTik RouterOS is the operating system of MikroTik RouterBOARD hardware. It can also be installed on a PC and will turn it into a router with all the necessary features - routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more. RouterOS is a stand-alone operating system based on the Linux v2.6 kernel, and our goal here at MikroTik is to provide all these features with a quick and simple installation and an easy to use interface. You can try RouterOS today, go to www.mikrotik.com and download the installation CD image. The free trial provides all of the features with no limitations." There are other projects that provide similar services in small footprint. There's NoCatAuth (http://nocat.net), the mother of all such projects, now defunct, but still works quite well. Then there's Pyramid Linux, a successor to NoCatAuth (NoCatAuth -> NYCWireless Pebble - > Pyramid). http://metrix.net/howto/metrix-pebble.html?chapter=0&id=3 There's also Voyager Linux (also an offshoot of NYCWireless' Pebble) http://linux.voyage.hk/ Then there's Vyatta, a rather robust full-featured router platform (http://www.vyatta.com/). There's also m0n0wall, which is FOSS, but based on *BSD. Very small footprint (last time I used it the footprint of the OS was 8MB). http://m0n0.ch/wall/ cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems Director, Center for Business Solutions San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://cbs.sfsu.edu/ http://is.sfsu.edu/
