[MLB-WIRELESS] what distro for gateway.

[Matt Pearce]

Personally as a newbie to *nix based os's I would try FreeBSD like Brendan
recommended.  To me is seems like a far more mature system with things
thought out a little better.  And as for firewalls, well there is no
comparisson.  The syntax of the IPFilter is dead easy in comparison to
ipchains or iptables so securing your little box will be relatively easy.
There is also a fairly comprehensive online manual put out by the FreeBSD
people which is there printed manual that retails for about $80-$90.  While
it only covers the basics of getting some things running it was and still is
very useful to me and its free :-)

Hope this helps.

Matt.


----- Original Message -----
From: <jv at teragen.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] what distro for gateway.


> ok. I now know what system Im building and want to know the best distro
for
> my needs.
>
> System
> AMD 1.2 /256DDR / MSI mobo with KT266 chipset/Rihcoh PCI cradles (2)/
> Roamabout (2) / 8139 NIC
>
> Perpose. mWireless AP / Fileserver / gmae server (mybe)
>
> My skill in  *nix: Very limited. Can work my way around to edit .conf
files as
> needed but know little more than that.
>
> I work in a workplace that runs RH7 servers and can talk to the techs
there
> anytime about problems and also get any update cd's needed (Tho im still
on
> netstats so thats not soo important).
>
> Given these details what would my best choice be for a distro to run well
as a
> mWireless AP ?
>
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