Marc Haber wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Jun 2001 01:52:41 +0200 (CEST), Leen Besselink > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I set up a router with my old 486 computer. I have there potato witch > >> kernel > >> 2.4 installed. > >> > >try running 2.2 or 2.0 instead, that might help also. > > In a router, having 2.4 has a _very_ strong point called netfilter. > > Greetings > Marc yes, but then you must know that netfilter eats up much more memory than the previous ipchains. I think maybe this is the problem; having a netfilter firewall with reasonable set of rules requires 32-64 RAM (it depends) I think I saw this discution on the netfilter list stating this... sorry, I didn't follow the disscution here: does it swap a lot?
dragos
