On Sat, 21 Mar 1998, Michael P. Plezbert wrote:
I don't really know if a 386 can keep up with a 28.8 modem or not, but I
It can, barely. I use a 386DX/25 to (among other things) connect to
another system via a null modem cable. It occasionally loses characters
at 57.6Kbps, this is with a
I have an old 386dx-40 laying around and was thinking about using it as
a router for a limited home network (maybe 2 or 3 workstations). It
would be used mainly as the gateway to my ISP for the other machines.
My question is.. is such a small horsepower machine worth even
considering for
Greetings
What about a 386SX/16? I *know* we're reaching here, but I've had this
machine forever and wanted to do this very same thing, but have always
wondered if setting the darn thing up would be worth the time. One book I
read mentioned when comparing different processors said a
What about a 386SX/16? I *know* we're reaching here, but I've had this
machine forever and wanted to do this very same thing, but have always
wondered if setting the darn thing up would be worth the time. One book I
Having had such a machine (a Packard Bell, even) :) running linux for
some
Hi
We recently purchased 45 386 boxes from a government auction. We use them for
modem permanent connections as a router.
They work great - we usually run a dns and firewall on it.
They have little 210Mb hard disks and 8Mb of ram. Cant run X, but we usually
pipe a xterm or a control-panel
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Douglas F. Elznic wrote:
You could also compile your kernel on another machine...
You could even make the router box floppy disc only.
386/40, 8MB, floppy are a quite reasonable router box :)
(1.6MB floppies are much place to put stuff on. Actually it's enough place
to
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This will do *fine*
If you were going to run windows95 on it, you would need at least 32meg
(along w/ some more money), but I could only suggest this if you don't
mind people on the 'net having access to your hard drives.
I use a 486 as a router
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeah, Its fine. I used the same configuration for about a year before I was
able to upgrade it to a pentium. I used it to route packets to the inet over
an isdn line. Worked great. I even played around a bit by turning the turbo
off and it still
