I just use GNU/Linux, and I know there are mini-distros specially suited
for router/proxy/firewall, some of them in just a couple of 1.4M disks.

We have used a '486 DX2 66MHz, 16Mbytes with a RedHat derivate
(Conectiva) for firewall ("ipchains"), ISP dialing through an 56k modem
("diald" and "pppd"), internet proxy ("squid"), internal e-mail server
("sendmail"), external e-mail fetching ("fetchmail" with "AMAVIS"
antivirus and "procmail") and forwarding (also "sendmail"), a small
intranet ("apache") and printer server / file repository ("samba"). We
were like 20 users at that time. Now we have a P233 (the old '486 is
FUBAR after so many years of continuous usage) doing less things working
just fine for a couple of years. BTW, I am not the Linux guru here, all
that primary huge work was done by a friend (at the beginning he made
something wrong with the kernel configuration and there were a "kernel
panic"; even in this condition, it generated a log of the event, built
an e-mail for him, dialed up the modem, and sent that message! ).

Why do you look for BSD?

Francisco


Brendan Moran wrote:

>Who all here uses a BSD derivative?
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>--Brendan, who wants to turn the ol P100 into a router/server
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