my firewall/nat box recenlty used to be 386/40 with 4 megs of ram. i basically obtained the crappiest machine i could find for the l33tness factor. it ran slackware 7.1 and saturated my 640/90 dsl just fine. it made a great machine for moving packets but with only 4 megs it would start swapping heavily if you logged in or tried running any extra programs.
after a record 260 day uptime the motherboard somehow just crapped out for good (not bad for a nearly 10 year old pc i guess heh) so i replaced the guts with a 486 board i had lying around and was back in business..;)
btw, i've had some brief stints with those floppy routers, while they make the setup more quiet i just couldn't get used to the super minimal setup and not having all my favorite utilities on there etc..
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my firewall/nat box recenlty used to be 386/40 with 4 megs of ram. i basically obtained the crappiest machine i could find for the l33tness factor. it ran slackware 7.1 and saturated my 640/90 dsl just fine. it made a great machine for moving packets but with only 4 megs it would start swapping heavily if you logged in or tried running any extra programs.
after a record 260 day uptime the motherboard somehow just crapped out for good (not bad for a nearly 10 year old pc i guess heh) so i replaced the guts with a 486 board i had lying around and was back in business.. ;)
btw, i've had some brief stints with those floppy routers, while they make the setup more quiet i just couldn't get used to the super minimal setup and not having all my favorite utilities on there etc..