> > I would also like for it not to have a hard drive and boot off a > > super disk or zip disk. > > I did't know that you could boot straight off of zip disk. CDRW seems > fairly popular these days, though older BIOSes can't boot off them either.
Booting off a Zip disk is pretty straight-forward, as long as it's supported by your BIOS. There's even a HOWTO: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/pub/doc/howto/LRP-Zip-HOWTO.txt As to routing a 100Mbit network at wire speed, you'll likely need a Pentium class system, or at least a 486 system with PCI slots (rare, but not unheard of). The ISA bus in 486 systems cannot handle the bandwidth of a single saturated 100 MBit link, much less two of them at once. The CPU load for routing between a couple 100 MBit segments is pretty low, however, so most any system with good PCI NIC's should be able to run at near wire speed, espeically if you're mainly dealing with large packets (CPU overhead on routing is mainly dependent on the number of packets, so it's easier to handle a few large packets than a bunch of small packets making up the same bandwidth). You might be able to get the 486 system running wire-speed 100 MBit if you can find a couple good bus-mastering EISA or VLB NIC's, but I think these are even scarcer than PCI enabled 486 systems :) Regardless, you should be able to aproach wire-speed 10 Mbit routing between a several 10 MBit NICs on your 486, using readily available ISA hardware. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
