[FINISH] Re: Router in Fedora. Alternative to Mikrotik

On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 12:57 -0400, Fabio Jara wrote:
> After some research about what Peter said i realize that your looking
> about the hardware of mikrotik, i was asking about the ROUTER OS that
> they use con that hardware. Something that can do the same, without
> editing and configuring all those services one by one. I already have
> a Fedora 11 Server with DNS, Apache, Samba, Mysql, DHCP and Squid
> configured and working. What i want to do is manage all of them, like
> adding users to Squid, and setting the bandwidth they can use  by
> user, that kind of stuff. A GUI interface is going to save me a lot of
> time.
>
> Also, i have Webmin installed, but it doesn't give me that kind of
> management.

To be pedantic, you won't manage them all with one interface.  Even for
tools for configuring one particular thing, you'll be switching between
different pages for different aspects of the configuration of it.  So,
on that note, it's not that different to use different tools to
configure different things.  Though, compared to some of the tools that
worked on two or more related, things (different services that work
together), you lose that convenience.

There's a plethora of GUI configuration tools that can be called up from
the menu, and I think there's still a control centre application which
bungs them all into a window (instead of a menu).

But I've always found the GUI tools to be limiting.  For instance, they
often only supported a small amount of the options you could configure,
and sometimes you had to understand how to manually configure something
to work out the GUI tool, anyway (e.g BIND configuration).

And, from time to time, they were out of date.  The thing that they
configured had changed, over time, but the third-party tool for
configuring them was still doing things the old, and incompatible, way.

Or they required the configuration file to be set up in a particular
way, or they stored a configuration somewhere else and updated the main
configuration with their own, making it impossible to manually configure
things as well.

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