Re: Routerboard was Anyone recommend a wireless firewall/router?

Stephen Gregory <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.ottawa.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 03:47:49PM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote:
> 
> I'd say that if you're stuck on running Debian, you're probably best off
> with ALIX.

I am not stuck on Debian so much as I would like an OS that receives
regular stable updates. I currently use a Linksys WRT with OpenWRT. It
works well enough. Unfortunatly no longer trust the software. As near
as I can tell to stay up to date I need to ride the bleeding edge and
track the lastest OpenWRT. The OpenWRT packages also like to overwrite
my custom scripts when it updates. The advantages of Debian (or
OpenBSD, etc) are the regular security updates, the ease of
customizing the installed software, and the shear volume of supported
software available.

I have not used Mikrotik's routerOS. It could be excellent. However I
would rather not get trapped into only using the software they support
and only using the hardware as they imagined it would be used. Which
is too bad. I like the features and the price of the RouterBoards. 


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sg

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