The P133 and memory I had laying around.
The Motherboard I got as a gift from a buddy.
The case I bought from a coworker for $5.
The video board came from my junk pile.
The monitor was a foot rest under my desk.
The HD was one deemed too small for other uses (3.2G.)
So all in all it was all sorta recycled junk anyways!
:-) :-) :-)
I will try the single floppy version as I don't like the
sound of the HD running!  That will be built from other
"junque" floating about!  I've got plenty of SBCs to do
that with.

-----Original Message-----
From: William Chops Westfield [mailto:billw@CISCO.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 5:00 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: very [OT] linux masquerading a lan


It does work well, my P133 with 75MHz bus and 64M work just fine as a
    front end with 2 16 bit NE2000 clone cards in it.

You guys are overestimating the amount of processor power you need to
do internet routing.  An ancient cisco AGS router with CSC/1 processor
would do a fully credible job of handling "internet" for a T1 line and
an ethernet, and it ran a 10MHz 68010...

Oh, you could find benchmarks where a 386sx16 and generic NE2000
ethernets wouldn't do very well, but it's probably sufficient for any
"real-world" usage up through DSL...

There are linux versions that will run just fine on that.

BillW