On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Hello everybody.
I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al.
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Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion.
Cheers,
Victor Padro wrote:
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Alvaro Schneider Guevara Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:40 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
Hello everybody.
I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to optimize the broadband "joining" both connections, and given the case, do not lose the Internet access.
You’d be better off with dedicated firewall-distro like, Smoothwall et al.
Html should be off in mails.
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/Sorin
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion.
Cheers,
PFSense or IPCop, IPCop is a little easier to configure IMO.
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Of KJS Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:16 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS
PFSense or IPCop, IPCop is a little easier to configure IMO.
Is IPCop the one that is so similar to Smoothwall, and also able to share mods?
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Victor Padro vpadro@gmail.com wrote:
Another Vote for Pfse3nse, the best router7firewall distro around, well just my opinion.
One caveat is hardware support. I assume because it is FreeBSD and not Linux
About a month or two ago I decided to go out and google for firewall distros. I made a short list which include pfSense, IPCop, and one other. My first choice was pfSense so I tried it first - and did not get very far.
The PC I tried it on is about 5 years old, but had 1GB RAM, big enough HD and so on. I could not get pfSense to even install on it and decided not even to put any effort into it so I moved right on to IP Cop which installed without a catch.
The irony is that I have a just about identical piece of hardware which runs my firewall right now. It is running a fairly old FreeBSD distro with no issues. It seems it is the newer FreeBSD that has issues, either that or the particulars of how pfSense slices and dices FreeBSD.
Of course this is only 1 datapoint. I'd at least recommend trying it on your hardware. If it works, then don't look back.
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