--- Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net wrote:
Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* <davidnicol@gmail.com | mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com> wrote: | | | | If only there was a boot floppy that would | turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/
...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions:
The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.
And then there's always FreeSCO.
Decent floppy-based router. If you have a hardware modem and dial-up ISP, you can even set it up to autodial your ISP when Internet service is requested.
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