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| Best X86 router distribution? I had Zeroshell/mlppp, but don't need the MLPPP portion anymore.
What is the best free distrib that has WEB access? I don't mine going telnet for few time, but prefer having a web interface for most operation I do.
The only feature I really want is QOS.
Is Pfense a good distrib? Something better? I want to get a free distrib as I will eventually buy a new router anyway.
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| j'utilise pfsense depuis 3 ans, numéro 1, et leur interface web est superbe. |
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Roop
join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON | reply to vitesse
i 3 pfsense.
- runs on really old garbage computers
- awesome web interface
- very customizable if you want (file system mounted read/write by default).
- packages give it the features of many enterprise grade firewalls |
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vitesse
join:2002-12-17
Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC | reply to vitesse
That's great I may give pfense a try.
I found another distrib that seem great: Clearos, but have no clue if it's really good. |
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cog_biz_useri ruin threads apparently
join:2011-04-19
Hamilton, ON | reply to vitesse
pfsense is okay, but it takes some setting up initially to get things locked down... i've used smoothwall for years, and for a cheap install-and-go router, it does the job quite nicely. there's also ipcop, but i've never used it. all of these support QoS. |
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 GonePremium
join:2011-01-24
Fort Erie, ON
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Is m0n0wall still around? I've had fairly good luck with that on various x86 hardware, including a Firebox that we was out of support and we couldn't get the stock firmware back onto no matter how hard we tried.
Edit - ah, pfsense is a fork of m0n0wall for full hardware. Didn't know that. Having said that, I've run m0n0 on full hardware without issue. |
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 El Quintron... a faint odor of kerosenePremium
join:2008-04-28
Etobicoke, ON
kudos:2 | reply to vitesse
Any updates on what you went with? I'm actually looking into this right now as well... I have something kicking around and I just bought a couple of Gig cards to start working on something like this. |
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jfmezeiPremium
join:2007-01-03
Pointe-Claire, QC
kudos:22 | For mes router, je prefer avoir config files que I download/upload et peux éditer on a computer et avoir a backup. |
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vitesse
join:2002-12-17
Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC | reply to El Quintron
I Finally decided to test two distribution. Pfsense and ClearOS. |
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| OpenWRT is also a good idea and there is a web interface if you choose to use one. |
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1 edit | Is there a x86 version of openWRT ? I know that its made for the ARM based platform.
DD-WRT is a spinoff of openWRT.
I think that openWRT is more for the hardcore linux users.  |
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xcimo
join:2007-11-21
Gatineau, QC | reply to vitesse
Astaro
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www.astaro.org (forum) |
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vitesse
join:2002-12-17
Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC | reply to vitesse
Yes I think OpenWRT is available for X86. I already tried it for my old WRT54GL. Was slow as hell compare to Tomato and DDwrt. Maybe I made something wrong.
I saw many people talking about Astaro, this could be a great idea. |
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 EUSKill cancerPremium
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I prefer pfsense over smoothwall for a couple of issues I had with smoothwall's "add-ons".
Although I never tried QOS in Smoothwall (at the time I didn't require it), pfsense does it great.
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| Pfsense is great. the only problem with my setup is that I need "DHCP+PPTP". Its suppose to be in the sept. build and I have the dec. 13 build and still dosent work.. to bad  |
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El Quintron... a faint odor of kerosenePremium
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| said by Rigor_M:Pfsense is great. the only problem with my setup is that I need "DHCP+PPTP". Its suppose to be in the sept. build and I have the dec. 13 build and still dosent work.. to bad
If that's the case, does it support OpenVPN?
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| »doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Features_List
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>VPN - IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP |
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| Yes as servers not client. I get a static ip from my isp after getting a dynamic one over dhcp. Hence the need for "dhcp+pptp".
Thats what they called it in the forums. |
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said by El Quintron:said by Rigor_M:Pfsense is great. the only problem with my setup is that I need "DHCP+PPTP". Its suppose to be in the sept. build and I have the dec. 13 build and still dosent work.. to bad
If that's the case, does it support OpenVPN? I wish
IMO, openVPN is superior to pptp. Only my 0,02$ |
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said by Rigor_M:Is there a x86 version of openWRT ? I know that its made for the ARM based platform.
DD-WRT is a spinoff of openWRT.
I think that openWRT is more for the hardcore linux users.
Yes, it works quite well on the x86 platform. They even ported older versions of OpenWRT/MLPPP to it, but not the newest one (full of bugfixes).
And yeah, it is more for hardcore Linux users, tyvm
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