[TriLUG] Suggested Router OS? may be OT.

[Carl Crider]

 All good points. Just getting tired of the 6 CD (no DVD drives)
install. With no PXE server in place
right now, we are doing the CD-Shuffle. And since the network here is
internal, we only need a basic
set of tools to direct traffic through our test beds.

 Thanks for the Revisor info, I'll take a look at that too. If I had a
choice, I'd make a simple Ubuntu
disc and get it over with.

Greg: "the standard suite" is it.

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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