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 97CAD138CA3 for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F04F3E08A8; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22A36E087D for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YThcU-0007Aj-4B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:04:06 +0100 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:04:06 +0100 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2015 03:04:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: new linux router Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 02:03:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20150305185912.GC2219@vidovic.ultras.lan> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 SeaMonkey/2.32.1) X-Archives-Salt: b0c0016c-f9c8-4ee8-8aa5-4ccd1a6acf3e X-Archives-Hash: 612e5ce751efae31fd865c8c26dffb0e Nicolas Sebrecht laposte.net> writes: > > 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 I actually recently acquired one of these from a friend. > For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: > http://www.alpinelinux.org/about Why would that be better than putting lilblue (gentoo) on the board. Maybe somebody who has success with booting off of usb (and that definitely is not me) could test lilblue on an alix2d3 board? http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Install_Gentoo_on_a_bootable_USB_stick https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Hardened_uClibc/Lilblue I'm not sure the arch of a 500 MHz AMD Geode LX800; isn't that compatible with i686 binaries? I found this: " When it comes to compiling, just compile with -march=geode. That option is defined on any i386/x86-64 gcc, so no real need to cross-compile. If you want to run the binary on your compiler host as well (without a recompile), try something like -march=i486 -mtune=geode. " How did you have your make.conf files (or similar under Alpine) set up? If I go this route, I'd really rather run gentoo or something quite similar, rather than a distro I not familiar with. > 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). I'm not familiar with Alpine linux. How many of your scripts would be useful on gentoo? If what you did is sensitive, just drop to me privately..... > While there is no wifi I found this MUCH better than WRT54GL, for > example. Yep, not in love with any of the wrt54 codes/systems/hardwares..... I do not need or want a wireless interface on this device. thx, James