elboricua
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Re: Need Light Network Enabled Distro..
What kind of board? 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.
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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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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elboricua
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| Yes QOS can be implemented in PF. It's called ALTQ. And yes it can do the routing and firewalling, and is much easier to setup a ruleset than in linux IMO once you get used to the syntax.
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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July 11th, @12:48PM
| Thank you very much .. Glad I took a liking to OpenBSD when I recently deployed it as my front-end mail gateway .. Now a new reason to deploy it.
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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bentman78
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agreed. I ran OBSD on a 512 flash card running OpenVPN PF/QOS, and DHCPD with other tools (pftop, ntop). It ran great. Stable and reliable. I mounted mount /var into MFS though and made / read only.
The only thing I found is OpenBSD's SIS driver is a littler slower than FreeBSD's.
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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 |
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Bronx, NY | Thanks everyone for the recommendations.. I'm sold! |
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