Re: Pros and Cons of Using an Old Box as a Router

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Author: Alan Dayley
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Using an Old Box as a Router
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
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