I have two cable modem connections coming into my home office and have a dsl line on the way.  Currently one of the cable lines is connected to a single machine which is not on the lan.  What I'd like to do, especially when the dsl comes in is to set up a box with lrp to share all three broadband connections with the lan and have a separate dmz network setup for a box I can get to from the outside world.  I'd also like to do some sort of rudimentary load balancing (round robin would suffice.)
 
I have an old Pentim (166Mhz I believe) with 20MB of RAM and three ISA slots that I'd like to use for this.  (assuming I can get an ISA multiport card).  This brings me to question 1) Will this box be able to handle that many interfaces (only 3-4 users and no public servers running)?
 
Failing that I have a PII 300 with 64MB and 5 PCI slots I can use in a pinch...
 
Second question:  How hard is it to configure lrp for this type of setup?  What distributions do you all recommend and how do I go about burning my  setup to a ROM (I don't want a hard disk in whatever box I set this up on.)?
 
Thanks in advance!
 
Steve
 

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