[TriLUG] Suggested Router OS? may be OT.

[Greg Brown]

I forgot.. what routing protocols are you using?  Anything really obscure or
just "the standard suite"?


On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Michael Peters <mpeters at plusthree.com>wrote:

> Alan Porter wrote:
> >> We've been using CENTOS in our lab environment to set up "pizza box"
> >> routers. My feeling is that this install is too heavy...
>
> Before making a big change like switching OS you should probably have more
> than a feeling. Why is it
> too heavy?
>
> > If CentOS works for your routers, then that sounds like a fine
> > solution to me.
>
> Me too.
>
> >  If there is a reason to shrink (small disk space,
> > running from flash, constrained memory, too many services running,
> > load is high), then shrink or find another distro.
>
> If disk space is your reason, you can create a custom version of an RH
> based distro using something
> like Revisor: http://revisor.fedoraunity.org/
>
> But if it's memor or the # of services running, then simply shut down what
> you don't need. The nice
> thing about having a full feature distro like CentOS is that you can shut
> off (and remove) what you
> don't want. But if you ever need it again, it's just few keyboard clicks
> away.
>
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> Michael Peters
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