I want to thank everybody who responded to this. The discussion has 
been really helpful to me.

On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:52:37 -0500, Rick Kunath wrote:
> 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? 

Unfortunately, I really mean 52Mb. It was supposed to have been 
upgraded from 8Mb to 64Mb. Through a rather bizarre series of 
events (in too long a story to tell here), it ended up 52Mb.

> It'll work with 32 MB, that's all the RAM I have on my P1, and it 
> works fine, cache and all.

This is excellent news. I intended to keep this smaller machine. 
The bigger one with more RAM and the larger hard drives is 
incredibly heavy which was why I was intending to recycle it even 
though it's more "modern." However, I'll keep both of them and see 
which one works well before I do any more recycling.

> 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.

Thanks!

deedee

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