where to shove the spare machines

[David Spake]

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"
<brian.kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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