On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 11:58, Bill Taylor wrote: > I have an old pentium (150) that I want to use as a gateway, firewall, > dialup internet, printer & scanner server. > I was going to use SME, but from a quick read of the docs, it is waay > beyond my requirements.
Smoothwall (smoothwall.org) worked very well for me on a Pentium 90. Later on I upgraded to Pentium 166 with 32mb of RAM, but that had nothing to do with its performance, which was perfectly adequate. It provides gateway/firewall for dial-up connection and DHCP server for my LAN. Installation and configuration was a total breeze, even for someone with very limited knowledge of networking like yours truly. Some have personal and ideological issues with the developers of Smoothwall and the direction they seem to be taking - away from GPL and towards commercialisation. If that concerns you, IPCop (ipcop.org) might be an alternative; it appears to be a totally-GPL fork of Smoothwall, with nearly identical functionality. Another solution with even lower hardware requirements is Coyote Linux, but I believe it doesn't do dial-up, not straight out of the box anyway. The only problem as far as your requirements go is that none of the above provide printer or scanner services. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm out of bed and I'm dressed, what more do you want?" - spotted on a T-shirt -- 2:20pm up 15 days, 14:03, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
