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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
Hi mates,
after again more and more differences oon the german list, on trustfully come to you and ask you...
I got some old 486dx33-isa computer as a present. it has 2400 baud internal, optics at 8000 cdrom, 2x 200 mb at hdd, isa ne2000 included.
Now the question:
As we write 2001 already, what use has one still got for such an old thing to be used under linux console environment.
I have a 486DX33, 24Mb RAM, 800Mb hdd, 2 3c509 network cards, no monitor nor keyboard. I use this machine, running on it SuSE 6.4, as an ADSL firewall and a mailserver. It also used to be a webserver as well !! ( I moved that service to a P100 when I started to experiment with PHP and Postgres ;-)
hope you don't treat this as a joke-question.
I think it's no joke :-)
I shall today give you more information as I did before to rise possibility of adequate answers:
486 runs with 4 mb - is that enough for gateway-firewall-routing purposes?
4 Mb is barely enough for simple floppy-based firewalls. I would if I was you, try to find more memory. 16+ Mb is good. Good for most. 32 is brilliant. Enjoy. - -tosi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6y7hW6mRH+PEpr2YRAo69AJ0V6UyMfNgt1l/e2ER/TMFskMpBewCdHlvE 3HWqquFwyqK27b2dALBsHQA= =kUaT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Tor Sigurdsson