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gateway (linux or bsd), pros cons

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fivepesos

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ive been looking for a good project and i think im getting tired of my current network setup. so im looking to rebuild my router/gateway box. its in my rigs profile if you care to look, but its realy just a pentium 133 on an intel mboard, nothing fancy. 1.2 gb pio mode 4 hardrive (it gets the job done).

it currently has slackware 8 (been on there since the day after 8 was released), im running iptables for my NAT and portforwarding. it only has portsentry for security (i havent felt the need for anything more robust). it used to run slack 7.1 and before i got the old drive, it ran freesco (one disk router distro). but im bored with it.

which leads me to my topic: WHAT WOULD AN INTERESTING PROJECT BE? AND SHOULD I USE BSD? ANY SECURITY APPLICATIONS YOU GUYS WOULD RECCOMEND?

basically, i have very little BSD experience. but this would be good project to learn the basics of bsd. i know bsd is secure, but how powerful are there ip routing features? links to info would be great. anything like linuxdoc.org for bsd?
 
ohh forgot to tell u about the NICs, i have four 3com 3c509 (left over from another project) and one intel etherexpress pro 100. i assume bsd handles these well.

id like to run a Journaling File System, the router sits in my room and id like to power it down the easy way (the POWER buttom). and journaled fs should be able to take that kind of abuse right? if i went the linux route, i was thinking XFS, Reiser, or ext3. is ext3 support built into the newest kernels? is reiser built in, or will i need to patch the source? i know i have to patch to get XFS. does bsd have support for any JFSs that would take that abuse? native support or would i have to do a lot of work to get support?

 
AFAIK BSD supports those NICs, they're really common.

Even if you use a journaling fs I wouldn't suggest just hitting the power, you will probably lose data eventually if you do it enough because journaling isn't meant to protect from having the disk cache pulled out from under it, it'll keep the fs sane but the data is another story. ext3 is your best bet because you can use full data journaling, I still wouldn't do it though.

reiserfs is built into all recent kernels, I don't like it much though. ext3 is in the -ac kernels but not the linus tree. XFS isn't officially in either, they have a CVS where you can get a whole kernel based on Linux' tree.

BSD has softupdates which are a different approach at the same thing and are supposedly on par with journaling, I havn't used them though.
 
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