Powerful Linux ISP Router Distribution?

fibrewire writes "I'm building a Wireless ISP using commercial grade, low cost equipment. My main stumbling block is that I cannot find a decent open source ISP class routing distribution. Closest thing to even a decent tool is Ubiquiti's AIRControl — but even it doesn't play well with other network monitoring software. I've used Mikrotik's RouterOS for five years, but it just isn't built for what I need. I don't mind paying licensing fees, but $300K for a Cisco Universal Broadband Router is out of my budget. Has anyone seen any good open-source/cheap hardware/software systems that will scale to several thousand users?"

Re:Just use any Linux distro

[ls671]

The title in the question was asking for a Linux distro.

Anyway, you have proven me right, if you read my OP very carefully, it states:

> I bet some would recommend looking at OpenBSD or FreeBSD as well. ;-))

Re:Hire someone who knows what they are doing.

[Em Emalb]

The fact that you are asking on slashdot shows that you are not qualified, and what you're going to get back is a bunch of others, who aren't qualified, suggesting all sorts of half assed hacks to do it which will just result in a utterly shitty service overall.

Dude, don't shit on a well-known slashdot tradition! How dare you!

Re:Hire someone who knows what they are doing.

[Jeng]

Wait, isn't shitting on topics a well-known slashdot tradition?

Re:Hire someone who knows what they are doing.

[Em Emalb]

Nobody expects to get shit on!

(To answer your question, yes. Slashdotters shit on anything and everything. We're like a pack of wild pigeons when it comes to that.)

Re:Hire someone who knows what they are doing.

[tkjtkj]

Rude, but true.

Re:Screw Linux

[Anonymous Coward]

You say you're running 50 odd Gentoo systems. That implies there's such a thing as a non-odd Gentoo system. I thought the whole point of Gentoo was to be odd...

Need help

[Goody]

I'm building a WISP, too. Do you think I should get a T-1 or a DS-3 for Internet? I haven't been able to decide between BSD and Linux for my router operating system. I think I'm going to go with Linux because I think the penguin mascot is cuter than that Satan mascot, but it's easier to get BSD to run on a 486 these days.

Re:Just use any Linux distro

[ls671]

blah, blah, that was just a typo.

Go fuck yourself !

Cheers,

Re:Are you serious, or just killing time?

[shaitand]

'Ok, now the hubs thing. I say "hubs" for any low end consumer grade unmanaged "switch". For some manufacturers, it was a marketing ploy to say "switch", which just meant "auto speed switching", where it would handle 10baseT/100baseT/100baseTX, but was still a hub (you could see all traffic on all ports).'

Your showing your age here my friend. This hasn't been true for many years.