Hello World, Ive got an old 386 machine - an SX I suspect thought I dont know for sure - with 4meg ram, 20mge hdd, 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives, ega & 8-bit soundblaster card. I want to make this machine into a firewall for an up-coming cable or adsl connection. It doesnt have to run any web proxy or mail server or squid cache - just firewall between outside and inside. 1. Now, can you make a linux install on a 20mg drive on a 386 which will do this? - and what distro is best suited for this? 2. What networking cards should I get? (ISA? PCI? - assuming there are enough slots for each...) 3. Where can I get these cards from? 4. Will doing this increase my Internet latency much if at all? 5. Since the box doesnt have a cd-rom drive - would it be best to install off floppies or do a network install? 6. Is there anything else I will need that I havent mentioned? Cheers + TIA, Aaron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
