Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote:
I don't think the web cache would work with 52MB of of RAM, but otherwise the
486 machine would make a perfectly good ipcop machine. That's an odd amount
of RAM, though. Did you mean 512? In that case, you'd be all set, including
the cache, which would be a great help on a dialup. When you're far enough
along, you could also configure the cache (squid) to block ads, which would
help even more.
It'll work with 32 MB, that's all the RAM I have on my P1, and it works
fine, cache and all.
If I had more machines on the local LAN than the eight I have now, I
suspect the added RAM would make a big difference.
Amazingly the distro runs om some really slow and minimal hardware.
There is also some excellent online and downloadable setup and user
manuals on the distro's site. They've got some nice graphics to show how
easy setup and running the firewall is.
Rick Kunath
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