freesco was developed in the open source tradition as an alternative to routing products offered by cisco, 3com, accend, nortel etc. while all of these companies offer products that are well made, the overhead and overall costs can be expensive.
freesco is open source, stable, inexpensive, easy to use, extremely versatile and flexible ... and best of all, freesco is free.
freesco is based on the linux operating system. and incorporates many of the features of other linux distributions into software that fits onto a single 1.44 meg floppy diskette. with freesco, you can configure:
a simple bridge with up to 10 ethernet segmentsa router with up to 10 ethernet segmentsa dialup line routera leased line routeran ethernet routera dialin server with up to 10 modems (with multiport modems).a time servera dhcp servera http servera ftp servera dns servera ssh servera print server (requires tcp/ip printing client software)freesco also incorporates firewalling and nat, which are resident within the linux kernel, to help protect you and your network. all of these features can be used in conjunction with each other or individually.
some technical info:
minimum install requires a 486sx with 12mb of ram. 16+mb of ram is recommended for enabling serversmodes of operation. ethernet, dialup, leased, bridge, ras, printer server. some of these modes can run at the same time as well as switching between dialup and ethernt modes2.0.39 linux kernelsupport for up to ten networks cardssupport for up to ten printer queuessupport for up to ten modems, although only four regular modems. support includes unix 4 or 8 port modemsfreesco v.0.3.x can run entirely from ram. this requires at least 16+mbfreesco v0.3.x can run up to 16mb of packages with ramdisks enabled on a floppy installident, dhcp, dns, print, ssh, ftp, http serversras (remote access server) for dialin and nullmodem connectionspppoe, and pptp clientssupport for dynamic dns, zonedit, dhs, loopia, and
