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

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Author: Jim
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of Using an Old Box as a Router
The box I'm using is a Pentium 200 with 96MB RAM. I run ftp, and http on
it as well as using it as a firewall and handling NAT and Samba for the
windows box. I use it for handling all my email. I used to have an IMAP
server on it until I stopped using the windows box for email.

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, 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
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