I've had good experience with PFSense as a firewall, router, VPN, and DHCP server. It will do any one of those standalone should you only need routing functionality. Google 'PFSense' Without the quotes to see more. That sits on top of BSD instead of Linux btw.
If u go with the above u should check their hw compatibility pages for mini pci wifi cards that will work, there are plenty out there but I don't know any off the top of my head, sorry. If u don't have a particular version of linux u want to use, try Debian. There is a lot of info on the net and this mailing list on installing debian on a Soekris machine, and from there u can install ur lamp packages. As long as ur traffic to the machine is realistic to its processing power, u shouldn't have too much of a problem. If u were thinking of a router and a web server in one machine, u can do iptables or other routing packages for Linux and do your lamp packages too. I don't have extensive iptables experience and can't help there. I wouldn't recommend running both the webserver and router on one box unless the load is low, as that is completely different from running a router that has a webgui which is rarely accessed. Have fun. -M. Moore ----- Reply message ----- From: "Matt Kober" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 16:43 Subject: [Soekris] Net5501 - Router & Linux LAMP Web Server To: <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
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