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PPC router software or distro?

I know this has been touched on before in the forums, but not for a few years... so thought I would ask again, as my requirments are little more specific:

I have to connect to a wired network that uses WPA 802.1x Authentication (I have to logon with a username and password etc.) I would like to use my iMac as a router to this (WAN) network from a basic ad-hoc wired network.

I was wondering if there was any good software that would run on OSX 10.3 or that would run on a PPC distro, or even a distro itself - that I could use. I know that I could use almost any distro for routing, but I need one that can cope with the WPA 802.1x WAN.

It would be nice to have things like port forwarding etc. too.

TIA

Matt.

I would have thought your OSX already had all the tools (or you can install them with no hassles).

IP Cop is working on a PPC version:
http://www.ipcop.org/index.php?modul...&tag=IPCopArch

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Originally Posted by pinniped (Post 3184926)

I would have thought your OSX already had all the tools (or you can install them with no hassles).

Not really, it's got very basic routing but nothing that's particularly good TBH. From what I understand it's for wireless LAN only too.

You can try "Yellow Dog Linux" or Debian PowerPC although you will have to install any tools yourself and twiddle with the configuration files; the advantage of IPCop is that the distro was developed specifically for routing, firewall, etc.