I can confirm that. I ran Ipcop back in those halcyon floppy days, right after Freesco started blowing chunks and couldn't keep up on kernel versions, fixes. Search Google for "linux floppy firewall" and you will find even more options. Coyote pops up quite a bit. I recall a cool website, where you put in various info about the box you are making into a firewall, and what rules you want and then it builds a floppy.img for you with the right modules for your NICs and is pre-setup for routing.

-----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of David Spake Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 8:28 AM To: kclug@kclug.org Subject: RE: where to shove the spare machines

Coming into the discussion late, but if you are looking for a firewall to run on a 386, you might consider older versions of Smoothwall (say .99) or IPCop. Check the IPCop forums (ipcop.org) and search thru the user forum. I found multiple hits on '386' where people talk about installing Smoothwall .99 on a 386, and IPCop on 486's with 16 meg of ram. Seems IPcop won't install with 8 meg, but if you populate it to 24, and then install you can reduce it back down to 16 (or maybe even 8) and run. I would suspect that you could search the Smoothwall forums for the same thing.

Dave

P.S. arrgh... damn web email client. Apologies for the empty post.

--- "Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO" wrote:

Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others.

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Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | 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:

http://www.leaf-project.org/

The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.