Joe C wrote: > One small problem with that distro for the computer I'm supposed to do > this with. it is only "Intel Pentium 3 733 Mhz, 512 MB RAM" which > doesn't even meet the minimum requirements for 1-50 computers which is > the range we are at right now. > > For those suggesting openWRT & DD-WRT I can't stand the idea of > wasting that much HDD space. I'd rather run a full OS so I can have > more features if I need to install one. > even with a 'full OS', i'm guessing there is only going to be a couple hundred MB of space used (unless you're installing a GUI). and a lot of functionality can be fit in that couple hundred MB. unless you're planning on doing something else like running a file server, most of the space is going to go unused anyways. so why not use something that is meant to act run as a router? openwrt and dd-wrt do great at that. openwrt has a surprisingly large amount of packages available for it. stuff like asterisk, samba, openvpn, various routing tools, and more. http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/x86/packages/ is a list of whats available in the snapshots. using it also gives you a nice web ui for controlling the core functionality.
another $.02 mike /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
