BrazilFW. THE Linux Router solution.

[Mad]

What is BrazilFW?

BrazilFW is a Linux mini-distro, designed for setting up network utility services such as internet connection sharing, firewalling, routing and wireless access points.

BrazilFW aims to make it as quick and easy as possible to set up a Linux system with minimum hardware requirements and no Linux knowledge. Exclusive Windows® Wizard to create your Linux boot disk from any Windows® system.

The main goal of BrazilFW is to continue the development of the former Coyote Linux floppy firewall/routing system.

The system is module based and it is a very advanced piece of routing software. Extra features can easily be added by adding an extra module.
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We were in a need of a managed Switch, because here im my friends Lan House, whenever someone opened youtube, it just killed all the bandwith.
No one could play games online, and sometimes even surf the web.

BUT a managed switch is kinda expensive here. So i just got a really old pc (P233mmx, 64MB, HDD 64MB, SIS900, 3COM 905xt) i had laying around here unused, and went linux.

Its really easy to setup, with a windows wizard. You can run it from floppy, HD, USB Pen Drive and even burn it to cd(but in this case, you cant change settings...).

In less than an hour i had everything going fine. After its installed on the HDD, all configuration is acessed via a nice Webadmin.
And after some fine-tunning on the bandwith limits, its really great now. People can play games with low pings forever, and the youtube users...well those gonna have to wait more...thus spending more money here

If anyone wanna experiment it, or have any doubts, i can help you guys. Their forums are most in portuguese, but the admins and mods do speak english, so dont feel discouraged to ask.

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[KillerShots]

If you want torrents alongside your gaming, you need either priority queueing or the ALTQ support from FreeBSD. I don't think linux offers either of those. Personally, I use ALTQ to guarantee that VoIP "just works" no matter what's going on over my inet line.

Also, a managed switch is not the answer here... or at least, it's not the best answer. You simply need a "real" router that supports traffic shaping / priority queueing.

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