A Pentium 2 450 with 128 mb of ram will be very more than enough. I used to run Slackware 9 for routing on a Pentium classic (Pentium 233) with 32MB of RAM (and it didn't crawl. But I am now using monowall on it since it makes traffic shaping easy.). I've even met someone who is still running an old Linux distribution as a router on a 386 (I think he used ipfwadm to configure it. It may be old, but it works for him). If you want to easily use Slackware 10.1 for routing and firewalling, please visit http://slugphils.homelinux.org and go to the downloads section. Get gShield, a text file configured router.

BTW, a Pentium 2 450 with 128mb of RAM can even be setup as a dedicated apache web server when used with Slackware.

Eri Mendz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This is my fresh asking in this list after some time so hi to all :-).

My home box is dual-boot slackware10.1/xp and a client in a dsl home
network. I was asked by the owner of the server box (XP) to 'play' server
as he's shipping his box home soon. Magandang tyempo ito para mapakita ko
ang kakayahan ng Linux lalo na slackware. Sabi ko titingnan ko. With
regards to the hardware connection and everything i think its just a matter
of switching the ethernet cables in the hub (just guessing here). Ditto for
the dsl modem. Ang problema ko pano e-reconfigure ang slackware para maka
serve sa walong(8) pc's sa bahay. All the pc's are running xp/win2k with
surfing, email, irc/ym chat as the major activities. So please tell/point
me to the right direction, maybe a howto link or something. I have to dig
and read up my slack archives too, as im a bit rusty now :-)

I have a separate [old] pc i set aside and not used right now. I think
it was running Arch Linux before i dismantled it. I dont know how good
idea to use this as the server and leave alone my dual-boot box. Kasi
ginagamit ito ng kakwarto ko playing broodwar/half-life games. Need your
opinion [s] here. Its kinda old box PII 450 128 RAM. Upgrading this old box
is not possible right now due to money matters. Anyway i appreciate the
input[s] of the list. TIA.

--
erimendz


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