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On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:33:33 +0100 (BST) Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Grant Sewell wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > With any luck, after Easter some of my students will be in a > > position where we can afford to "play" with some kit. I would like > > to cover routing with them in more depth and I would like to give > > them a series of tasks involving a bunch of low end computers and a > > bunch of PCI network cards... ie building their own routers with > > which to put the routing theory into practice. > > So rather than bloating the box with additional nonsense, why not > just do it from scratch - basic linux install, a few ifconfig > commands and a few iptables commands. Done. I suppose if I were covering a Cisco system I would just get them to jump straight into setting it up via the command line. There really is no need for kid gloves. So any recommendations on slim-line systems then Gordon? Would you go for a grass-roots Debian system? Or Slackware? > CLI is there - it's built in. It's called /bin/bash No need for sarcasm! :p Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq