Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 14, 2010 @09:36AM from the love-doesn't-scale dept.

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?"

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Re:Mutually exclusive by peektwice · 2010-01-14 12:14 · Score: 0, Troll

They are mutually exclusive. The OP is taking the Wal-Mart approach. He's getting some of the cheapest shit possible, and then telling himself that it's just as good as "commercial grade" equipment.

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