I have acquired a dual 10/100 intel nic for my router (yay!). I have a question: What would characterise the ideal distribution for router + mini file server sort of work? Personally I use gentoo and I like it because I can take advantage of constantly updating s/w packages by compiling from source. However for a router, I think one would want a stable, secure/hardened distribution that handles patches well and any changes to kernel and/or packages can be rolled back in case an upgrade goes wrong. Any advice/suggestion is most appreciated! Thanks a lot!! -Sumeet ps I don''t know if someone has experimented with a back-up system images i.e. an initrd based system, so the root fs is always in the initrd and an upgrade is a matter of swapping out kernel and/or initrd image?
On Saturday 15 November 2003 03:36, Sumeet Singh Parmar wrote:> I have acquired a dual 10/100 intel nic for my router (yay!). I have a > question: What would characterise the ideal distribution for router + mini > file server sort of work? Personally I use gentoo and I like it because I > can take advantage of constantly updating s/w packages by compiling from > source. > > However for a router, I think one would want a stable, secure/hardened > distribution that handles patches well and any changes to kernel and/or > packages can be rolled back in case an upgrade goes wrong. > > Any advice/suggestion is most appreciated!Debian rules :) You have a lot of control and cron-apt can be used to keep your system up-to-date with the latest security patches. Stef -- stef.coene@docum.org "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/ #lartc @ irc.openprojects.net _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/