[CS-FSLUG] OT: router features

[Jon Mark Allen]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:47:23AM +0800, Alan Trick so eloquently stated:
> I tool an old box that used to run windows 98 and stuck about 300 MB of
> RAM[1]. I put IPCop[2] on it and a mod for squid & dansguardian. It
> works beatifully, and squid's caching speeds stuff up noticably.
> 
> Just my anecdote. YMMV, but ipcop seems to be a pretty solid product.
> There's also many other similar things out there like smoothwall[3],
> m0n0wall[4], FreeNAS[5], pfSense[6], and SME server[7].
> 
> In Christ
> Alan Trick
> 
> 1. it probably didn't even need that except that we have a large network
> and I wanted to use squid
> 2. http://ipcop.org/
> 3. http://smoothwall.org/
> 4. http://m0n0.ch/wall/
> 5. http://www.freenas.org/
> 6. http://www.pfsense.com/
> 7. http://contribs.org/
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I second the Smoothwall/IPCop/m0n0wall suggestion.

I use a smoothwall at home. IIRC, IPCop was a fork of SW.  Both seem to
be very good.

Smoothwall has the option of using ISC BIND or
DNSMasq (my personal preference).  I know dnsmasq will do what you're
asking.  I haven't used IPCop, it might have that option, too.

The setup is a breeze and it has the standard web gui interface.

Both IPCop and SW support site-to-site VPN connections, too.  I've found
that to be very handy.

I would give IPCop or Smoothwall serious consideration, as I think they
could do what you're asking with ease.

JM

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