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 475BD138CC4 for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F10DE082F; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:57:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from jarl.yagibdah.de (unknown [185.55.75.245]) (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 6E460E081D for ; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 18:57:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from br-dmz-ip.yagibdah.de ([192.168.1.1] helo=heimdali.yagibdah.de) by jarl.yagibdah.de with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybvvc-0005U4-Vs for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:57:52 +0100 Received: from lee by heimdali.yagibdah.de with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Ybvvc-0004vM-S3 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:57:52 +0100 From: lee To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router In-Reply-To: (James's message of "Fri, 6 Mar 2015 17:01:48 +0000 (UTC)") Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 19:57:48 +0100 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87bnjdc5lf.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> References: <20150305185912.GC2219@vidovic.ultras.lan> <20150306112958.GB2459@vidovic.ultras.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 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 X-Archives-Salt: b6d122b3-d7d7-43b4-93b5-226b92bdf0e8 X-Archives-Hash: 44dfe0b8e8712e2e13f6eb9363406487 James writes: > Nicolas Sebrecht 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. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.