On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:28:27PM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > I there any distro of Linux specifically to turn a PC into a router? > > What I am looking for is something that runs on a PC, either from > a floppy, hard drive, USB memory stick, etc, that turns a PC into > a full function router. Similar in function to the SVEASoft package > or Tomato for the Linksys routers. > > The person who would be using it is not technically able to run or configure > a Linux system as a router. they could only do it if it has a web interface, > and then they would need some coaching. > > They have an aDSL line if it matters and currently use a Windows XP > "dialer". > > The choice of a PC is that they have several PIII class computers sitting > around and no money for a router.
There are several such things. I did not really try any of them myself, only looked for one for a friend, and one of the more promising ones was ipcop. It's rather large, with quite many plugins/packages, all should be managed with a web interface. Another one that I liked was m0n0wall, which isn't linux but FreeBSD, with userland being entirely written in php (no init/sh/etc) and a single configuration file you can easily backup/restore. Google a bit for these and you'll also find other such projects. An even larger project, which is supposed to be more-or-less a general-purpose server but still with a simple web interface is ebox. Seems quite interesting, but its version number is 0.9.something, which means it might not be ready yet (although being 1.something doesn't always mean the opposite). As I said, I did not try any of them. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
