Re: Looking for routers

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:59:32AM +0200, Americo F. Muchanga wrote:
> i could suggest the use of zebra. i can help you with the configuration 
> if you ever decide to go for a pc router. However dedicated router such 
> as cisco is more stable and recommendable.

If you are building a PC router, you can improve reliability by replacing
the hard drive with a compact flash card. CF cards are now very cheap, and
you can buy adaptors which let you plug them straight into the IDE port on a
motherboard: here's one which is $13
http://www.pcengines.com/cfdisk5a.jpg
http://www.pcengines.com/cflash.htm

More options here:
http://www.linux.ie/pipermail/ilug/2002-January/041511.html

and you might also want to look at the Linux Router Project:
http://pigtail.net/LRP/
http://www.linuxrouter.org/

Cheers,

Brian.

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