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 better for playing with X-Windows. Also, once I set the machine up, is there an easy way to know if the router is bottlenecking the network ? I know how to test in Windows NT with performance manager, but will "top" do the same job (can i tell whether the network card throughput is being throttled just by looking at the CPU/memory usage)? Thanks as always! Iain