I have a 486/33 16MB OpenBSD IPFilter/NAT box.  Installed with 1 floppy and
ftp onto < 100MB disk space.  Everything but /var mounted ro.  3c509 PNP
ether and 56k v9.0 ISA internal modem.  OpenBSD's ppp tool has built in
NAT and packet filter, as well as port redirection.  It also supports
mutilink and pppoe and a lot of other stuff.  Read more about it at:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ppp
I only had to edit 6 files after the install to set it up as my router,
and 3 of those were changing a 0 to a 1.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 09:50:34PM -0700, Jim Darrough wrote:
> I just installed a Coyote dialup router using an old Compaq Presario 833cds 
> (486dx-33) with a floppy, an old NE2000 clone, and a 33.6K USR internal 
> modem. Seems to be working just fine!
> 
> Regards, Jim
> 
> At 09:40 PM 4/18/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Could you describe your set up??  I'm using a FreeBSD 486 as a
> >firewall/gateway.  Is that about the same thing?
> >

I guess the main difference is that coyote is a floppy disk, with very
limited (read 'no') userland, whereas you and I have an OS.  Can coyote 
even mount a disk?  I kind of like to be able to use perl to parse my
logs and send me mail if anything funny is going on.  It's also nice to
be able to ssh to it, but that's just my opinion.

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a disk, at least for logging purposes?

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