That probably won't work...you need at least 2 ethernet cards or 1 100 mbs card and a managed switch that supports trunked vlans. My suggestion would be to find a low power quadra or II series machine. A quadra, such as a 610 would be great, because it has one ethernet port built in; all you would have to add is the second ethernet card and an angel adaptor.
Also, all of the *nix's, (Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD) all require a full 68040 or 68030/68020 with FPU and MMU. Also, I suggest you use OpenBSD. I currently run a Quadra 800 w/ 4 NICs as my firewall (public, DMZ, LAN1, LAN2). Great machine.
Matt
Excellent idea.
Tried it once with a c650, the ethernet port gets smothered at around 200kps making it less than useful for cable.
A cheap beige powermac doesn't suffer this limit and also provides a good medium for connecting 68k macs as well as latter macs. A router is also a good idea.
Aren't concerned about my guestamatted through-put because your not on cable? http://www.macunix.net:443/ is worth a read as is http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/
A cheap, throw away pentium and a couple of nics will do the same job from a floppy if you wish, add a hdd and it will make a good appletalk file server.
Cheers all. ;)
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