[plug] Basic Linux routers

Jeremy Malcolm Jeremy at Malcolm.wattle.id.au
Mon Jul 2 19:50:21 WST 2001


> Has anyone heard of any diskless routers?
> Eg. A Linux router that can boot off an onboard pci card or something.
> I am interested in building a basic linux router and in reality very little
> space is required and 20 GB HDDs seems a bit of an overkill. A major concern
> is expense obviously the main reason to do this would be to make it cheaper
> to sell later.

Linux Router Project (http://www.linuxrouter.org) is the usual choice,
have you seen that already?  I've been playing with bird
(http://bird.network.cz) if you need something more capable, it does BGP
and everything.

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