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http://www.freesco.org/
FreeSco is the alternative to Cisco as the producers like to say. It's just a small linux distribution (1 diskette) oriented as an all-in-one router. I'd like to use this for my server. Has anyone used it ? Are there any security issues ? I guess compromising a system running FreeSco won't be so hard.

Strafe wrote:http://www.freesco.org/
FreeSco is the alternative to Cisco as the producers like to say. It's just a small linux distribution (1 diskette) oriented as an all-in-one router. I'd like to use this for my server. Has anyone used it ? Are there any security issues ? I guess compromising a system running FreeSco won't be so hard.

I've heard about it, though not testet. For home use i believe it should be quite. Though naming is misleading - freesco is far, far, far away from being a replacement to cisco's ios as the name suggests. Though i use linksys wrt54g + alchemy 7 RC1 (linux). More than satisfying for my needs.

I haven't tried personally - but friend told me it's very useful.

I could go with a small router though. (30$)
But i want more control, so i'm looking for an alternative. Something that will fit on a small disk and still be operational

Strafe wrote:I could go with a small router though. (30$)
But i want more control, so i'm looking for an alternative. Something that will fit on a small disk and still be operational

You could go with this one >> http://firewall.dubbele.com/

Personally, I can't wait for SCO to start suing these guys too for "trademark infringement" and the such ...

I love politics!

i also use a linksys wrt54g, but i didn't think it was possible to get linux firmware on it, i must look into this....

"Stability. It is based on NetBSD, one of the most stable platforms for the PC. " [extracted from http://firewall.dubbele.com/]

Did i mention i want L I N U X ?