Well, freesco looks like a good solution. I tried freesco first but couldn't get my two 3c509b network cards to work correctly. It *should* work with two similar cards, but it didn't, so I gave up. On the other hand it is not so difficult to set up a firewall/router with a complete distro. I have one running right now on a PC with a Winchip 225 Mhz chip using Redhat 6.2. But I could use this PC for other tasks and the Suse firewall package looks interesting. In a private reply an user told me that the 2.0.3.x kernels have co-processor emulation so I'll try to use Suse 6.0 for this task. And I will start learning to compile a kernel when i have some more time to spend :-). Peter Samy Elashmawy wrote:

IF its striclty an router/firewall then use freesco from www.freesco.org its a sinle floppy linux router./firewall on a disk.

Just slap it in the drive and reboot from the flppy , and run the setup script , then reboot. Will work real well with older type hardware and is very easy to setup a firewall-router than under suse or any major distro. I have been usung oit for well over a month now it realy like it.

At 02:18 PM 9/2/2000 +0300, Peter Portin wrote:

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I have an old Compaq ProLinea 4/33s with 32 Mb Ram. I intend to set this

PC up

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as a router/firewall for my small home LAN. It has an i486SX processor.

It seems that current distributions of SuSE have no math coprocessor emulation compiled into to kernel and I feel that compiling my own kernel is still a bit beyond my ability.

Which older distributions of SuSE have support for coprocessor emulation? Should I consider some other distribution? I feel myself most at home with SuSE and Redhat.

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