RE: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-18 Thread Ed Weinberg
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 08:26, Kevin Krieser wrote: > Of course, I am someone who went from using his Linux box as the firewall > device to a Linksys router, because something always came up when I decided > to upgrade the OS on my Linux box, and one time I was down for 4 days before > I resolved the

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-15 Thread juaid
Thanks to all the ones who answered, I thought there was no problem with that, but the recommendation on LPR after someone said he was having problems made me doubt a little bit.. thanks again, juaid -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https:/

RE: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-15 Thread Kevin Krieser
] Subject: Re: RH as router, not recommended?? On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:26:46PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: : If you need to fit it on one floppy disk like LRP, then LRP is better : for obvious reasons. Other than that I can't think of any other : reasons it would be better. Of course, having

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-15 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:26:46PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: : If you need to fit it on one floppy disk like LRP, then LRP is better : for obvious reasons. Other than that I can't think of any other : reasons it would be better. Of course, having less installed, means : less to configure, and less

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, juaid wrote: > In this days someone sayed that he did not recommend to use a RH 7.3 box > as router, and recommended the Linux Router Project The only reason to avoid a full-blow distro for routing and/or firewalling is security. LRP (and similar) run in RAM, so you don't h

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread Anthony Abby
I'm using Redhat 7.3 as my router and firewall. Works just fine. Anthony On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 12:55, juaid wrote: > In this days someone sayed that he did not recommend to use a RH 7.3 box as > router, and recommended the Linux Router Project > > Is this true? > Why? > Is it a too "heavy" dis

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread Emmanuel Seyman
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:55:09PM -0300, juaid wrote: > > Is it a too "heavy" distribution to use as router so it does not have the > required performance to do so? FWIW, I set up a routeur based on Valhalla in an office a few weeks ago. RHL 7.3 (minimal install), P133, 32Mo of RAM, 2 ISA netwo

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread mikeyw
Slightly OT - For a router setup I'm in love with freesco at http://www.freesco.org. Mike W - Original Message - From: "juaid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 1:52 PM Subject: Re: RH as router, not recommended?? &g

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread Sam Ockman
If you mean router as in firewall type box that does simple routing, take a look at ipcop (probably ipcop.org)it's really great. There's nothing inherently wrong with using red hat as a router, especially if you have a seperate firewall. The big advantge, which could outweight any disadvanta

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread juaid
From: "Hal Burgiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > If you need to fit it on one floppy disk like LRP, then LRP is better > for obvious reasons. sure >Other than that I can't think of any other reasons it would be better. great then, me neither, that's why I asked... >Of course, having less installed,

Re: RH as router, not recommended??

2002-10-14 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:55:09PM -0300, juaid wrote: > In this days someone sayed that he did not recommend to use a RH 7.3 box as > router, and recommended the Linux Router Project > > Is this true? Just depends ... > Why? If you need to fit it on one floppy disk like LRP, then LRP is bette