On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 04:55 -0800, Michael Balcos wrote: > 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.
Darn... makes me reminisce the old days wherein we supply the Internet connectivity of an entire building using an old Compaq desktop with a 133MHz Pentium chip and 16MB of RAM. I just dunno how power-efficient that would be though... so for me I'm settling with embedded hardware (MIPS or PowerPC are really good in driving down power below the 30W range). -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
