Re: Debian From Scratch: How Low Can You Go?
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim wrote:
> > smaller than this. It's only barely a Debian system, though. :)
>
> Hello:
>
> Currently, I am maintaining three Linux distros:
> - Debian GNU/Linux (for system servers)
> - Linux Mandrake (for "ordinary users")
> - LinuxRouter (for system router)
>
> Is there is a possibility for using the Debian
> distribution for creating Linux routers?
>
I think nearly any Linux distribution can be used to create routers. It
is, after all, the networking functionality of Linux (the kernel and other
applications) that one needs to build a router. I've been using Debian for
several years for routers at home and at work. The question really is,
what are the resources in terms of disk space, RAM, etc. that are
available on the target platform that you to be the router. For machines
with limited resources, the Linux Router Project is intended to run off a
floppy in a machine with no hard disk. So the smallness of the
distribution is relevant when the target hardware is limited, but isn't
when it is not.
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