Open source routers for WAN load balancing

Posted At : July 19, 2008 2:00 AM | Posted By : Andrew
Related Categories: Firewall,Open Source,Rants,Linux

Get ready for acronym overload.

A while back, I write a blog entry about pfSense, and mentioned that it was a worthwhile project. Now I want to mention Vyatta, which is another open source router project. While pfSense is based on BSD and has a fancy web interface, Vyatta is based on Linux, and only has CLI (command line interface).

As a general rule the CLI is not really a huge problem for me, especially since Vyatta has a PDF reference manual outlining the different commands.

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Ghost for Linux ?

Posted At : November 19, 2007 6:05 PM | Posted By : Andrew
Related Categories: Open Source,Linux,Backup

I have long been a supporter of using Ghost for imaging disks. See a previous post on how to use Ghost 2003 with Windows Vista.

I have never, however, been able to find a replacement for Linux... until now.

I just came across this -- and pardon me if this is old news -- which seems very promising!

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

This is an open-source project based on NetBSD that allows you to boot from a CD, connect to an FTP site, and backup-to-image, or restore-from-image to the local drive, using the FTP site as the image storage location. This sure sounds like what Ghost should have been!

I intend to try it out very soon.

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