[TriLUG] Suggested Router OS? may be OT.

[John Broome]

OpenBSD can be net installed from a floppy.  I've run it on old sparc
pizza boxes with no problems.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Carl Crider <c.crider at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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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>> Michael Peters
>> Plus Three, LP
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