On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 21:01:04 +0600 (LKT) Grendel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have installed 2.6.1 on router (Pentium-133 MMX) some time ago with 48Mb > > ram: proxy, routing, mail server, etc, for the biggest hospital in > > our 2 mln city. and its working great. > > > > So I recommend to use 2.6.x until you have some very old hardware (386SX, > > etc) > > I would differ, we all know that kernels really become stable once they > reach at least x.x.10. So I would recommend that you stick with the good > old 2.4.x kernels till the 2.6 kernel matures a bit more and then you can > use it as a server. Please note that actually the 2.6 series is better > tuned for the desktop than the server in most situations. I agree. I would recommend a vanilla 2.4.24 kernel at this time, because it has all the features you need for a firewall / router. A router really doesn't need any of these fancy new features of 2.6... -- Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key fingerprint: 2DE8 CCEF 6E20 11D4 3B27 21EC B0BA 1749 D2C8 38ED Get my public key at : http://www.final-frontier.ath.cx/gpg_public_key.txt
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