Still running my 486 DX/2 with 33 bogomips. I think that's still more than what a LinkSys router has. It boots off floppy, hard disk disconnected, goes for six months or more. Been running for several years. Almost nothing allowed in. Should probabably switch to a Linksys router/firewall, but I like trying to get some use out of old hardware and it works so well I hate to give it up. 400MHz P2 that's server class for me. ;-) Alan Dayley wrote: >On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:09 pm, Jonathan Claxton wrote: > > >>Craig, it depends on what cpu this old box has. I got a box with a 800MHZ >>p3 cpu with 256meg memory that is my router and yea...it's overkill for >>what it does. I have hear of people running a p2 with 64meg memory running >>just fine. >> >> > >I ran my DSL connection through a 100MHz 486 with 32MB RAM, 120MB hard drive >and ISA 10MB network cards. Worked great for 2+ years. I gave it away as a >door prize at a Devel meeting some months ago when I upgraded to 400MHz P2. > >For just filtering packets and doing NAT for the internal network, low power >is plenty of power. > >Alan >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss