In MaD dUCK's email, 20-06-2001: > so i pulled this old 486-33 machine out of the basement, it's got 8Mb > RAM, a shitty graphics card, and 240Mb of HDD space. it's ISA only, > but i want to try using an AVM FritzCard and a cheap NE2000 compatible > to make it be a masquerading router. it's probably going to fail, but > i want to try anyway. > > question is: 2.2.x kernels or 2.4.x? i'd tend for the latter, but i > don't know is that's harsher on the hardware and needs more space, or > not... > > any hints, tips, thoughts welcome! > > martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) > \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck > -- > only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer. Hi! Well, I can only tell you what I'm doing now - I have a 486/33 in my room doing all the rouiting and masquerading for my internal network of about 6 boxen right now out to my high-speed internet.. I'm using 2.2 mostly because I don't quite grok the ipfilter or whatever the 2.4 kernel uses right now. Other than that, the machine is puttin away with 2 ne2k ISA cards in it and giving out dhcp and dns for the internal network. I think I have 16mb of ram though. "Don't dis the 486" :) -- Michael Janssen - Jamuraa - janssen@cns.uni.edu - jamuraa@base0.net GPG Fingerprint: 87F1 92C4 44AA 4105 B1C4 EDEC D995 9620 C00E 9159
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