Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

Thu Feb 11 01:06:56 UTC 2010

On 2010-02-10 at 17:12:28 -0700, Blake Pfankuch wrote:
> Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro?  Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support.  I've used SmoothWall Express but not in some time and not sure how well it works with IPv6.  Not looking for something huge, just something for the equivalent of a small branch office.  Site to Site VPN support and NAT translation capability for a few public IP addresses to private addresses are the only requirements.  Public or private responses are welcome!

I'm not sure if the GUI is a requirement, but I'm a huge fan of Shorewall.
It has support for both v4 and v6 along along with the usual router
requirements.  Since it's just a linux box with a few iptables rules, you
can easily load openvpn, ipsec, quagga, etc...

It's all text files and a 'shorewall start|stop|check' script.

If you want something with a GUI, pfSense is your best bet, or you could
use something like fwbuilder to build your iptables rules.

-A