I too recommend Smoothwall.  I have it running on a 100mhz 486.  Works great.

Alan

On Friday 16 November 2001 12:52 am, you wrote:
> I've been using Smoothwall for about two months now, and it's really nice. 
> Very easy to set up, and the default rule set is pretty stringent.  It
> includes Snort for intrusion detection, Squid web cache/proxy, a caching
> DNS setup, port forwarding, and quite a bit more.   It also has a very nice
> web based administration page.
>
> I'm currently running it on a 486DX4-100 w/16 MB RAM and a 300 MB hard
> drive.  It seems to handle even a moderate load without blinking.  I
> recently had 15 people over and we were playing Half-Life, Quake3, etc. on
> public internet servers and lag wasn't a problem (CableArizona provides
> 512k upstream, unlike Cox's 128k).
>
> The install ISO is a whopping 25 megs.
>
> http://www.smoothwall.org
>
> Patrick
>
> At 12:31 AM 11/16/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Wanted: Small OS for firewall on old 486
> >
> >To be used for future cable modem connection.
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