hi Vipin,
Thank You for answering me very well and i am glad to know that You are ready to help on building a new one, Yes! i am ready to spent time on building it from scratch.... As You said for sure this will help me a lot in learning new thinks.... Will you please give me links and support for building one. If you prefer Debian based one i need more support since i am working on Redhat flavors, like Fedora and CentOS ( i need to learn Debain too) Which Debian based Distro would be the best one or You were mentioning about a minimal installation of Debian ? i have no idea on configuration of IPTables/MRTG..... Thanks, Anoop On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Vipin M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, aampal aam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Group, >> >> We are planning to setup a Linux router for 60 nodes network. We use a >> cheaper solution of Linksys Router now, > > Are you looking a solution for wireless connectivity ? > Or wireless and wired ? > > If only wireless Linksys will be good. And i never think single router can > server 60 nodes, it will end up with very less throughput. > > If for both wired and wireless, i suggest put a linux box as router and used > Wireless AP's for wireless connection. > >> >> bit it doesn't got any options >> to monitor/limit the bandwidth usage of by users or IPs. >> >> We cannot afford a CISCO router. We have a leased line terminated by >> Ethernet on our end with static IP. >> >> Our main aim is: >> >> 1. Effective usage monitoring (IP based or User based). >> 2. Limit access >> 3. Define policies on security and access. >> 4.Load Balancing (if possible) >> 5. PC based > > >> >> What you guys think, an exclusive Linux Router Distro or some packages >> like Open Linux router is the best? > > > > If you put a linux box you can do all this and more. > >> >> as far as i read mOnO Wall/PFsense are good enough for our >> requirement..... which one is the best amongst this.... >> >> How about Smooth wall? > > I suggest to use a minimal Debian etc installation and add use Squid, > iptables+ip, mrtg and simple scripts will do wonders than all above listed > once. > > The advantage is you will learn all those, and flexibility to do any thing > around. > > If you use any of the standard linux firewall distro, it limit in lots of > way. I had bad experiance. > > The deal is time. > > >> >> Please pass Your thoughts and comments on these. Also Your experiments >> and observations. >> > If you are intrested in building. i can sugest links and help. > >> >> Awaiting for the support from the group. > > > --- > Vipin M > MS By Research Student, > Wireless Communication Research Group, > AU - KBC Research Centre, > MIT Campus of Anna University, > Chennai - 600 044. > > Phone : (+91) 044 2223 1034 / 4885 / 6858 Ext : 29 > Mobile : (+91) 098407 88435 > Url : http://comm.au-kbc.org/vipintm.htm > > _______________________________________________ > Mailinglist mailing list > [email protected] > http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > _______________________________________________ Mailinglist mailing list [email protected] http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org
