On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Leandro Asnaghi-Nicastro wrote [in part]:
> I currently have set up the following: a 486 with 20 MB of RAM as
> my gateway (to nothing) ....
>
> What I want to do is setup the DialD daemon (I avidly read the
> HowTo as if it was honey), and I'm wondering... could a 56K
> modem (external) work on the 486 running as a gateway?
Yes. Definitely. We (Greg and I - he'll probably reply to this too) ran just
such a system here for many months, routing to a ppp connection maintained
with diald. We now use the same system to route to a DSL modem.
Really, this isn't pushing the envelope at all -- it is a very conventional
use of a 486. Take a look at the Linux Router Project (www.linuxrouter.org
or lrp.c0wz.com) for a lot of information about use of 486s as routers in
much more depanding situations than yours.
> No, before I get yelled, I did check the UART on the machine, and
> it says 16550A.
Good. This is important. A 16450 can't run reliably at speeds above 38400,
and the first 16550's (without the A) were buggy. I don't understnd your
description of the boot process and IRQ assignment, but it shouldn't affect
this issue in any case.
>This is because the computer has both one CD-
> ROM and two 250MB HD, since this card allows it first boot the
> computer and then it boots by itself and assignes IRQs for the
> various HDs.
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