Robert Heller wrote: > > Right. You'll *have* to get at least a socket-7 motherboard with a K6 > processor and DIMM RAM sockets and PCI bus, if only because getting > old-school SIMMs is hard these days. And getting a distro with install > kernels (much less stock kernels) for less than a 586 is getting hard, > unless you opt for something like Slackware or Linux From Scratch. In > practice any still working minimually i686 system with a reasonable > amount of RAM (for just a DNS server, 256meg RAM and a 20-40 GIG IDE > disk, would probably even be enough to install, say, CentOS). I > recently installed CentOS 5.2 on a old Dell box (PII or PIII vintage) > with an 18gig disk. No X11. Just DNS, DHCPD, PPPD, Samba, CUPS, and > little else. This little box is just being used as a dialup 'router'. > It is jacked into a wireless 'router', but the wireless router is just > being used as an accesspoint and Ethernet switch (this is a home setup > -- broadband is not presently available, only dialup internet). > > > > I replaced a modern retail firewall/router with a 500 Mhz Celeron with 512K RAM (Intel 810e motherboard) and a PCI dual port ethernet card of because the 'modern' POS turnkey couldn't handle 100 mbits/second through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled that plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage. -- Benjamin Franz