# Open Sourced Linux Router

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197>\
**Category:** Archived Topics\
**Created:** [June 26, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197 "2009-06-26T07:07:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Kyle\_Chase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de0a6/32.png) [@Kyle\_Chase](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kyle_Chase)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197/1 "2009-06-26T07:07:31Z")

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Hey Guys. I dont know if many of you are involved with the networking side of things as much as I am forced to be, But if you need a solid, powerful cheap router, you should check out [www.vyatta.org](http://www.vyatta.org). It also has instrusion prevention, clustering, and various sorts of VPN ( IPsec/L2TP, OpenVPN, and PPTP).

It will run on x86 hardware, or like I do, inside a virtual machine. If you need help with setting it up, just post back here

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197/2 "2009-06-26T16:00:52Z")

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I’ve had good luck in the past with m0n0wall as well ([m0n0.ch/wall/](http://m0n0.ch/wall/))

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**Author:** ![porksmash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/848f3c/32.png) [@porksmash](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/porksmash)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197/3 "2009-10-22T18:36:29Z")

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I’ve got pfSense running at home - it’s a fork of m0n0wall and a little easier to use in my experience. [pfsense.com/](http://www.pfsense.com/)

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197/4 "2009-10-22T18:39:40Z")

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“Untangle” looks pretty snazzy as well.

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**Author:** ![SSysEU](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@SSysEU](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/SSysEU)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/open-sourced-linux-router/1197/5 "2010-06-16T16:01:20Z")

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You can take a look at zeroshell too

[zeroshell.net/](http://www.zeroshell.net/)

It has a CF image for embedding and a lots of features!

It also works smooth on virtualization platforms like ESX…