Hiya,
I've ran FREESCO, available at www.freesco.org, for a number of years.
I haven't used software routers in a long while, but if stingwray is going to compare and contrast them, I'm interested in seeing the results.
I used FREESCO as a dialup router for my home network before broadband was available here. I ran the squid proxy caching server and privoxy to block ads and annoying content for the entire network to help increase web browsing speed. I also ran samba, pureftpd, and apache on it for LAN file sharing.
The main problem I had with it (apart from running the 2.0.x kernel ;) ), was it didn't support FHS, so porting applications to it was cumbersome. There's a large library of packages available, so that might not be a factor depending on need.
Now I miss tinkering with it, so I'm going to toss it on an old box and check out what improvements have been made since I gave it up.
TC
