[TriLUG] need better router

[Michael Hrivnak]

I did it on a Pentium 60 with 16mb ram and two rtl8139 NICs.  You will have to 
be very conscious though of what you install- keep it to a minimum!  Don't 
install X or anything graphical, and don't run anything on it that will chew 
up much memory.  I ran apache and a mail server with spamassassin as the only 
two applications of significance resource-wise.

For the record, I did this with slackware.  I think it started with 7.0, and I 
made it to 8.2 before switching to a new machine and going with Mandrake.

Michael

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 02:05 am, Mike M wrote:
> Is a P5-133Mhz with 16MB sufficient for implementing a secure router?
> It needs to replace a Linksys appliance in terms of performance.
>
> I have 2 each rtl8139 NICs for the box but I could get Intel or 3Com
> NICs if that is necessary to meet performance requirements.
>
> TIA,
> --
> Mike
>
> Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.