Joe C wrote: > I've been assigned with the task of make the following computer as a > router, preferably with a web interface to configure it. > > It has the following hardware three NICs, Intel Pentium 3 733 Mhz, 512 MB RAM. > > Google isn't being very helpful. I'm guessing my search terms are just > wrong as it keeps sending me to stuff that is for hardware routers > (like the linksys Linux router) instead of full computers. > > I need a DHCP server, internal DNS, our connection is a dedicated IP > address, I also want to assign the external DNS servers to openDNS > instead of our ISP's, & a firewall obviously. > > I can't think of anything else that we need it to do. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */
Just about any Linux distro (Redhat, Ubuntu, etc.) can be a router if you set it up that way. If you don't need the Linux box to do anything else, I would look at one of the distros specifically designed as a router. This seems to be a pretty good list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_router_or_firewall_distributions Personally I run openwrt on a Linksys, but I've heard good things about pfSense, M0n0Wall, SmoothWall and Vyatta. Corey
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