[request for demand dialling] > It would be a very good idea to use one of the distributions specifically > intended for use as a gateway on a separate machine. vis:- > > IPCop, Smoothwall, Gibraltar, FreeSCO, and many others.
Why would it be a very good idea? It would depend on what you want, and how. If I wanted it fast, I'd tick "on demand" in the dialler config GUI (aka yast) and fill in a few variables in the packet filter/firewall to turn the box into a router. It wouldn't run on a 486, but would work in a few minutes. Runs well on a p-mmx with 64M ram though... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
