Re: [suse-security] Linux as a commercial alternative to a Cisco router

/ 2004-04-07 18:21:25 +0100 \ Carl Peto:

1) Can one of the SuSE Linux products (doesn't matter which, we can afford it) act as a fully fledged router?

Yes. Any linux can. There is nothing special in routing...

2) Can it do VLANs over ethernet?

Yes of course. Any linux can. See freeswan/openswan. Probably some distro dedicated to this task is easier to setup than a general purspose distro...

3) Can it act as a LNS for an L2TP circuit, such as those from DSL routers, authenticating against a RADIUS server?

I think I have seen this setup somewhere. Probably needs to use some pam module authenticating against radius. Don't know exactly how to configure this, though. Lars Ellenberg