From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5A5138CA3 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:59:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9251E08C1; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:59:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f174.google.com (mail-we0-f174.google.com [74.125.82.174]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC5DAE0884 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 18:59:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wevk48 with SMTP id k48so11446860wev.7 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:59:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=+qHK4XZVTspgJoD74fW3ky7GYfKxgBFgQucwwhAuOXo=; b=ravKJTBLom+EadHRkEs6sLRoSb05E2jPv+3ccqrsgpwoODibZdU4VD0fwBO/dhyyN9 lJAQYXrLjC4NiHbI8mREXkNEnHkYE7yYrTRKVMOCi17Sm/qgk1AhCagFx8lhXJ5ncywL XPn09UCftVE4XmqDI7ArL15rqaIc1kMS1mlnV7VNOOu1qx8wJXKpUVAagUNC8754EXal /i58kCLm1AuTha5/ArX3Qygo59G2kScIaU8yurt0QgYsXHC85fplOQyIHcc6bSykZ1rH JRVGSiLpgjeKnzw7HP3eNW6prcAU51EtfxRCRNktQVKz1yqFv6CyXjBiYRjShobohwzw vS1Q== X-Received: by 10.180.85.70 with SMTP id f6mr14128969wiz.22.1425581955489; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from vidovic.ultras.lan (243.141.89.92.rev.sfr.net. [92.89.141.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id k6sm30921580wia.6.2015.03.05.10.59.14 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:59:14 -0800 (PST) Sender: Nicolas Sebrecht Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 19:59:12 +0100 From: Nicolas Sebrecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Nicolas Sebrecht Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router Message-ID: <20150305185912.GC2219@vidovic.ultras.lan> References: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 5eac8de2-6bfb-4620-afd5-40bd98505df5 X-Archives-Hash: 3fa3a4cbff581328f589717dfcebfaac On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 03:10:40PM +0000, James wrote: > I'd like to be able to download some open source linux to the router > hardware if updates and pathces are not maintained by the vendor? > That way I do not purchase something that is to be abandoned in > a few years by the vendor. > > It's just a small home/office so 3x100Mb E would be fine, but GigE > ports would be better. I'm flexible on the CPU/arch of the hardware, > so all discussion and suggestions are welcome. In an idealized world > I'd pay extra for a gentoo_derivative based router; but all I find > is the WRT, devil_linux and such, nothing really cool and interesting. For the hardware, you could get a alix2d3: http://www.pcengines.ch/alix2d3.htm For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: http://www.alpinelinux.org/about That's the combo I used in a recent past and it worked quiet fine (802.1q VLAN, traffic shaping with tc, advanced firewall with scripted iptables rules, ethernet cards controlled with ethtool (I could fix speed/duplex for incompatible network hardware), ssh, etc). While there is no wifi I found this MUCH better than WRT54GL, for example. -- Nicolas Sebrecht