This would be a greate candidate for OpenBSD: http://www.thedeepsky.com/howto/newbie_pf_guide.php
I've got a similar box up and running as a Voice Proxy Firewall and its been running without a hic-up for a couple of months now. Jon Carnes On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 03:06, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > I did it on a Pentium 60 with 16mb ram and two rtl8139 NICs. You will have to > be very conscious though of what you install- keep it to a minimum! Don't > install X or anything graphical, and don't run anything on it that will chew > up much memory. I ran apache and a mail server with spamassassin as the only > two applications of significance resource-wise. > > For the record, I did this with slackware. I think it started with 7.0, and I > made it to 8.2 before switching to a new machine and going with Mandrake. > > Michael > > On Wednesday 02 June 2004 02:05 am, Mike M wrote: > > Is a P5-133Mhz with 16MB sufficient for implementing a secure router? > > It needs to replace a Linksys appliance in terms of performance. > > > > I have 2 each rtl8139 NICs for the box but I could get Intel or 3Com > > NICs if that is necessary to meet performance requirements. > > > > TIA, > > -- > > Mike > > > > Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
