On Oct 5, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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. That proves 614K should be enough for anybody. Giovanni P. Tirloni tirloni at gmail.com