Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> writes:

> Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev <at> laposte.net> writes:
>
>
>> > > For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine:
>> > >   http://www.alpinelinux.org/about
>
>> Sorry, I can't. I don't have them anymore while I'm sure they are still
>> used in production.  It's something easy to do, though. The scripts  
>> themselves are distribution agnostic. E.g. my ipfilter service only 
>> used $IPTABLES. The only thing to update are the service files for 
>> openrc, systemd, upstart,  whatever.
>
> I've gone this route before. Sooner or later, I need something else
> and then adding/customizing it is often very arduous.... Still Alpine is
> interesting. Building a minimize Gentoo or embedded Gentoo is not
> difficult either. Musl will be in the final mix, regardless of which
> direction I go. Thanks for providing additional information for me to 
> ponder  before choosing  a new router.

Why not use an HP Microserver?  The black-box style embedded stuff
doesn't seem to be accessible at all to begin with.


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