Linux based router

[Red Squirrel]

What would be a good distro to use to create routers (not NAT firewall) with Linux? I could use just a regular distro and play with iptables but I'd like something with a basic web interface to make it easier. I'm hoping to be able to do dynamic routing such as rip, ospf etc but just static routes would work ok I suppose.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Found one called vyatta, looks promissing so far.

 

[Brazen]

Best two full-featured ones I have found is ipcop and pfsense. Ipcop is older and has just about every feature you could imagine in a router available either standard or through add-ons. Pfsense does not have so many features as ipcop, but I like that it is based on bsd (supposed to be more secure) and I think it has a much nicer interface.

If you only want a basic feature set, such as what would be available in a linksys router plus a little more, then go with m0n0wall. Incidentally, pfsense is built on m0n0wall, though m0n0wall itself is very very mature and stable.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Now that you meantion I've heard of those two as well and they're pretty good. I'm impressed with vyatta so far though, really weird name so easy to totally miss, but its definatly nice. It has a cisco-like command interface as well as a web based, but I'm actually finding myself using the command line more, since its trickyer to access the interface of a router in the middle of a mesh when not everything works yet, so I just use the vmware console.

 

[silverpig]

I had smoothwall set up a while ago. It was nice.

I ended up giving it away to someone (with windows installed) and got a boxed router/WAP.

 

[Modelworks]

pfsense is great.
Ran it for over 6 months now.
Not a single problem.

If your looking for software to run on router hardware there is the wrt firmware.
Another I found recently for AR7 cpu routers , supports ADSL and voip based routers

http://www.routertech.org/index.php

 

[Red Squirrel]

just found another one, called zebra. It's almost like working on a cisco router. For some reason vyatta would not ping other plugged in interfaces even if they were directly connected so I tried something else. So far zebra is working, configuring the last router now.