You might try playing with some of OpenBSD's virtual routing capabilities. You could create a couple of VLANs and test out some of the BGP/MPLS VPN capabilities within the VLANs.
________________________________ To: misc@openbsd.org Sent: Sun, May 15, 2011 9:48:36 AM Subject: Things to do with a Pentium 166MHz cpu - 32 MB of RAM - 1.5 GB disk Hello, I ressurected an old pc yesterday (specs on title) with OpenBSD 4.9 and without X to keep it light. It runs ridiculously well! Everything works fine except the automatic powerdown (shutdown -hp now), which is not supported aparently by the mobo, anyway, don't care about that. I currently have sshd, pf, sshguard and sendmail running, all in 4-5 MB of 18-21 available RAM (the rest is taken by the hardware I suppose) and 1-2 MB of 42 MB swap. I could turn it into a firewall, but I allready have one, and I am not very excited about the idea. What I do find exciting is teaching my nephew some computer/programming basics. Anyone find it a good idea? I have allready installed python and gprolog, which I like for basic aritmhetics stuff. What dissapoints me the most, is that there don't exist USB ports and they might not even be supported, the pc is from 1998. I could use rtorrent with screen to download stuff to an external hard drive.. But I will check on that when I find the time to open the case. What else could I use it for? Thank you! Mike
