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Smoothwall 3.0 1 14.29%
IP Cop 0 0%
Monowall 0 0%
PFSense 6 85.71%
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Old January 14, 2011, 01:17 PM
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So i am building an atom based router for rack mounting. The hardware has been ordered now i just need to decide on the OS any perference and why. I have used them all before and can't decide.
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Old January 14, 2011, 01:39 PM
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Ive heard good things about PFSense, so my vote goes there I guess, lol.
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Old January 14, 2011, 03:42 PM
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Out of those 4 I only liked PFsense and Smoothwall, PFsense already got some love so I voted Smoothwall.

Is this for home or work? It seems all your choices are leaning towards commercial style distros.
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Old January 14, 2011, 03:50 PM
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this is for my home install. However i am running some servers on my home network that and i am tired of having to reboot my linksys router all the time.
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Old January 14, 2011, 07:38 PM
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smoothwall or pfsense.
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Old January 14, 2011, 07:54 PM
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ya i have been playing around with them in a VM tonight and i really liked pfsense. I like that the QOS is stupid easy to setup. The only catch i can see is there doesn't seem to be any DHCP/DNS Masquerading as i need to pass dhcp option 66 as i have some voip phones on my network that need to boot from a TFTP server. Is this something that can be easily accomplished
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