On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 07:23:28PM +0200, MaD dUCK wrote: > 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... Either kernel should be fine, though you should really get more ram. A router in 8 MB ican get ugly :) I've run 16 MB in my router and was happier with 32 (my router is a 486/25 old timer with 2 3c509b :) I'm running 2.2.19 ATM since netfilter had some issues up to 2.4 3 IIRC. Cheers, -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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