On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 21:59 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote: > In non-virtual environments at least, my personal experience has told > me using Ubuntu as a dumb/headless router is a bad idea. I used one > for a good 4 months and had constant issues with it that were > impossible to resolve, and nobody I talked to had any idea how to > solve. The biggest of which is ubuntu didn't really work well at > being a headless box that no humans directly interact with.
I don't think your experience is representational of the larger one in this instance. Although I'm not necessarily recommending Ubuntu as a good distribution for creating a router, it certainly works fine as a headless box. I imagine that it's used pretty extensively in this configuration. hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's Open Source Hardware Supplier _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
