On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Robert C Wittig wrote: > > Funny thing is, I have no intention of turning off my Windows 98se > box... it works great. In the next few months, I will hopefully have > my entire rag-tag network of retro-boxes and operating systems fully > networked together behind a gateway/router/firewall box... maybe an > old 386 or something. > Freesco is a pretty good, lightweight firewall/router based on Linux. I'm using it and it's working pretty good. The whole thing fits on a single floppy and can be run from there, or installed to a HD if you like. Setup is pretty simple, too. The project was abandoned for a while but has recently been adopted by a new group, who are actively improving and updating it. It's based on the 2.0.39 kernel (current release is, anyway - 0.3.2). It even comes with a webserver (tiny http) and can act as a dialin router. It's pretty friendly to older hardware, but it can only be run on a 386 if it's sufficiently fast (prolly 25Mhz or > ) and if it has sufficient RAM (prolly 16MB min). On 486's, min RAM is 8MB. Anyway, that's my pitch for Freesco, which has worked really great for me and routes my DSL connection pretty much flawlessy.
On another note: aren't you the guy that collects old machines? I recently bought on auction for really cheap these old 386 "portables". Maybe you've seen my posts about them? A couple are really mint. I'm just gonna hack them up into hot-rodded versions of their former glory. But if you'd like one for your collection, I'd be happy to donate one. You'd have to pay shipping, but I'd ask nothing for the machine, which I got for only about .50 anyway. Let me know if you're interested. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
