There are many, many variations of this.
AFAIK, the most common is LRP (Linux Router Project).
There are a couple other famous ones, such as Coyote and Freesco.
Freshmeat.net is a good place to look.
-Gabe
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Ehrhart, Jay wrote:
> I am looking for a cheap alternative to buying a router. I have plenty of
> PCs and I wanted to put Linux on them and make them routers. I want to
> place these PCS\routers at remote school sites so they need to be simple and
> quick to rebuild in the event of trouble.
> I heard of a Linux version that fits on a floppy and sets up a PC as a
> router. Does anyone know the name of it and\or where I can get it?
>
> Jay
>