[TriLUG] need better router

[Jon Carnes]

This would be a greate candidate for OpenBSD:
  http://www.thedeepsky.com/howto/newbie_pf_guide.php

I've got a similar box up and running as a Voice Proxy Firewall and its
been running without a hic-up for a couple of months now. 

Jon Carnes
  
On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 03:06, Michael Hrivnak wrote:
> 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.