Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3648 mails)

[Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On July 2, 2001 02:56 pm, Iain Gray wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just moved into my new house, and the promised land of cable modem
> access is only 8 days away :-).  I already have an ISDN connection which I
> will use for a backup when the cable modem is down, and I am looking to put
> together a router running Suse (probably 7.0 for the moment). The router
> will be doing IP Masqueurading, and firewalling, for a network of about 4
> or 5 users maximum.
>
> The machine will also be doing a bit of web, ftp, and mail serving ( only
> for personal convenience), and possibly making a VPN connection to a
> friend's network. I won't bother loading any GUI stuff onto it.
>
> What I would like to know is... can anyone suggest a minimum spec for this?
> I have quite a few old machines, ranging from a 486-66, up to a pentium
> 233. I'd like to use as low a spec as possible, as the higher machines are


	I used to use a pentium/90 with 32 meg of ram for a 1meg DSL connection. At 
full speed the machine barely stayed awake. It wouldn't surprise me if the 
486s could handle the job. Set the machine up and do a download from a fast 
FTP site. Check your speed I doubt you will have any trouble sticking at the 
top speed the ftp site can feed you. The only thing I've heard of is to avoid 
ISA network cards if you can.

	Nick