Welcome to the homepage of Shurdix!

Shurdix (formerly known as Route Hat) is a linux distribution for routers, firewalls and embedded systems.

Features

Some of the important features are:

• 100% open source (freely downloadable, complete source available, no hidden licenses/certificates/DRM)
• Commercial installation and support available on request (pricing)
• Fast installation
• Easy system updates
• Optimised for performance
• Low system requirements
• Hardware autodetection
• Fair bandwidth distribution among active clients
• Loadbalancing over more lines
• User management (restricting internet access by IP+MAC pairs, MAC authentication over RADIUS) screenshot
• Interface and IP Accounting screenshot
• Web interface for administration
• VPN (PPTP, OpenVPN)
• Secure encrypted backups (offsite) of configuration and logs
• Automatic Security Policy Enforcement helps to protect your network against virii and worms

Deployment

Dormitories in particular find some of these features important. At the time of writing, 15 dormitories totalling over 4500 students use Shurdix.

For small companies, a complete product (small box without moving parts with Shurdix preinstalled, "Shurdix Router Lite") is available. At the time of writing, 19 of these are in use.

References

Download

The latest releases can be downloaded here:

Shurdix 0.3 ISO (~22MB)

Devel package (build system + sources) (~5MB)

Links

Presentation from OSCON 2006

README (obsolete, use wiki from the link below)

Documentation (Wiki)

Forum