http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646742 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:04:37 EDT Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:04:37 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18663484 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18663484 Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:56:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18656625 said by elboricua:

I run full blown OpenBSD on my Soekris Net4801-50 off of a 512 MB flash CF card. I run OpenVPN on this rig as well. PF for firewalling, but I don't do the QOS stuff, but it can be done quite easily. Runs great. I am guessing you could probably run a full install of FreeBSD or NetBSD on that as well.
A few other random "selling points" on OBSD:

-pf + CARP = dual firewalls that can seemlessly fail over should one die
-the best free bgp and ospf implementation out there if you need any actual "routing"
-a secure firewall
-supports encryption acceleration cards
-solid solid support for supported wireless cards, neat wireless tools too
-very tiny "distro"
-very well tested on Soekris hardware]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18656625 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:14:07 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18655700
The only thing I found is OpenBSD's SIS driver is a littler slower than FreeBSD's.
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I have a Soekris and love its small size and low power. It is a bit underpowered. I used vtund and ssh for remote access. Worked well.

I think they sell an encryption accellerator card for them. If you are using a fast line, it would help on speed. Mine does my 1500/256 line fine, but I know it is a bit slow for a real fast line.
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While I haven't followed the newsgroups closely to see if there is any new development, I believe m0n0wall has issues with IPSEC passthrough. Either that or it is my ineptitude. I've yet to try to setup a S2S VPN.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18652034 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:32:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18652002
So the bundle should look like:

OpenBSD
PF
ALTQ
OpenVPN

The soekris board we'll have to choose soon enough based on load.

Thanks again everyone :)
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18652002 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:29:20 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18651808
Depending on the network load a 4801 or the cheaper 45xx series would work great. If you plan on having a high load I think the newer 5501-70 (500 mhz processor and 512MB ram) would be the better choice. It all depends on how many pc's are going to run behind it.

»www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
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No choice in board yet. I guess its fair to say that I will pick the board based on the OS and the features i need from it (applications)

So in pf QOS can be implemented?

pf can do the routing and firewall correct?

OpenBSD also .. that would be sweet and yes the soekris is what I'm looking at. Saw that on undeadly.org :)

Thanks...
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18651737 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:48:02 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18651551
I have tried Monowall and pfsense and both are great but I have always had trouble with both and 1to1 natting. Something about the gui throws me off ;)
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So in other words when the tunnel is lost and comes back up, all happenings on the LAN side of the VPN tunnel will then be forwarded to the live tunnel.

Caching data when the link is down rather then just discarding it..
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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18647008 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:53:32 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646797 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646797 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:22:47 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646785 http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Re-Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646785 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:20:04 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/Need-Light-Network-Enabled-Distro-18646742
I need a lightweight distro which can handle the following all at a small cost (resources) and be run on a Single Board PC.

- Routing
- QOS
- VPN
- Firewall

I'm not oppossed to linux, bsd or any other distro. So long as resources are not hogs.

I will have the hardware to accomodate the requirements, but picking the right distro is where i need help.

I installed DSL (damn small linux) and its very light .. So something that light to run all of this is ideal ..

Any recommendations?

Thanks.. I know i can always count on the BBR *NIX team for help!
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