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 For the distribution, I'd recommend Alpine: http://www.alpinelinux.org/about 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). While there is no wifi I found this MUCH better than WRT54GL, for example. -- Nicolas Sebrecht
