On gio, 2013-12-26 at 11:33 -0500, Nick Cameo wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8 > (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding > line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company. > > For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static > routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux > stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD. > Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated. > > Kind Regards, > > Nick. >
I would definitely consider Alpine Linux [1], which is designed exactly for that purpose. Small footprint, run-from-ram, config from on flash, security oriented. KR, - leo [1] http://alpinelinux.org/about
