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Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?
fibrewire writes "I'm building a Wireless ISP using commercial grade, low cost equipment. My main stumbling block is that I cannot find a decent open source ISP class routing distribution. Closest thing to even a decent tool is Ubiquiti's AIRControl — but even it doesn't play well with other network monitoring software. I've used Mikrotik's RouterOS for five years, but it just isn't built for what I need. I don't mind paying licensing fees, but $300K for a Cisco Universal Broadband Router is out of my budget. Has anyone seen any good open-source/cheap hardware/software systems that will scale to several thousand users?"
The title in the question was asking for a Linux distro.
Anyway, you have proven me right, if you read my OP very carefully, it states:
> I bet some would recommend looking at OpenBSD or FreeBSD as well. ;-))
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
The fact that you are asking on slashdot shows that you are not qualified, and what you're going to get back is a bunch of others, who aren't qualified, suggesting all sorts of half assed hacks to do it which will just result in a utterly shitty service overall.
Dude, don't shit on a well-known slashdot tradition! How dare you!
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Wait, isn't shitting on topics a well-known slashdot tradition?
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Nobody expects to get shit on!
(To answer your question, yes. Slashdotters shit on anything and everything. We're like a pack of wild pigeons when it comes to that.)
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Rude, but true.
"There are 11 kinds of people: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who could not care less!"
You say you're running 50 odd Gentoo systems. That implies there's such a thing as a non-odd Gentoo system. I thought the whole point of Gentoo was to be odd...
I'm building a WISP, too. Do you think I should get a T-1 or a DS-3 for Internet? I haven't been able to decide between BSD and Linux for my router operating system. I think I'm going to go with Linux because I think the penguin mascot is cuter than that Satan mascot, but it's easier to get BSD to run on a 486 these days.
Tired of being "punished" by the Slashdot $rtbl since 2002. I'm now over at http://soylentnews.org/ .
blah, blah, that was just a typo.
Go fuck yourself !
Cheers,
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
'Ok, now the hubs thing. I say "hubs" for any low end consumer grade unmanaged "switch". For some manufacturers, it was a marketing ploy to say "switch", which just meant "auto speed switching", where it would handle 10baseT/100baseT/100baseTX, but was still a hub (you could see all traffic on all ports).'
Your showing your age here my friend. This hasn't been true for many years.